1630 in literature

1630 in literature

The year 1630 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

* English literature, drama, and education lose a major patron and benefactor when William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke and Lord Chamberlain of England, dies on April 10.

New books

*Johann Heinrich Alsted - "Encyclopaedia"
*Thomas Dekker - "London Look Back"
*Thomas Randolph - "Aristippus, or The Jovial Philosopher" and "The Conceited Pedlar" (in one volume)

New drama

*Anonymous - "Pathomachia" (published)
* John Clavell - "The Soddered Citizen"
*Sir William Davenant - "The Cruel Brother" and "The Just Italian" (published)
*Thomas Dekker - "The Honest Whore, Part 2" (published)
*Philip Massinger - "The Picture" & "The Renegado" (published)
*Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza - "Cada loco con su tema o el montañés indiano"
*Thomas Middleton - "A Chaste Maid in Cheapside" (published)
*Thomas Randolph
**"Aristippus"
**"Amyntas, or the Impossible Dowry"

Poetry

*Diana Primrose - "A Chain of Pearl"
*John Taylor - "All the Works of John Taylor the Water Poet"

Births

*February 28 - Matthias Tanner, theologian (died 1692)
*November 24 - Étienne Baluze, general author (died 1718)
*"date unknown" - Noel Alexandre, theologian (died 1724)
*"date unknown" - Isaac Barrow, theologian and mathematician (died 1677)
*"date unknown" - Kaibara Ekken, philosopher (died 1714)
*"date unknown" - Olaus Rudbeck, scientist and author (died 1702)
*"date unknown" - Thomas Tanner, clergyman and writer (died 1682)

Deaths

*April 29 - Agrippa d'Aubigné, Protestant poet (born 1552)
*"date unknown" - Gabriel Harvey, poet and author (born c.1545)
*"date unknown" - John Heminges, actor and co-editor of the First Folio (born c.1556)
*"date unknown" - Charles Malapert, Jesuit writer (born 1581)
*"date unknown" - Samuel Rowlands, pamphleteer (born c.1573)


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