1629 in literature

1629 in literature

The year 1629 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

*April 6 - Tommaso Campanella is released from custody in Rome, and gains the confidence of Pope Urban IV.
*November 22 - The King's Men perform "Othello" at the Blackfriars Theatre.
*Pedro Calderón de la Barca and his friends break into a convent in an attempt to seize Pedro de Villegas, who had stabbed Calderón's brother.

New books

*Philipp Clüver - "Introductio in Universam Geographiam" ("Introduction to Universal Geography") (posthumous)
*Robert Fludd - "Medicina Catholica" (Volume 1)
*Richard Sibbes - "The Saint's Cordial"

New drama

*Richard Brome – "The Northern Lass"
** - "A Lovesick Maid" (lost)
*Lodowick Carlell - "The Deserving Favourite" published
*William D'Avenant - "The Just Italian" performed; "The Tragedy of Albovine" published
*Ben Jonson - "The New Inn"
*Philip Massinger - "The Picture" performed; "The Roman Actor" published

Poetry

*John Beaumont - "Bosworth Field; with a taste of the variety of other Poems left by Sir John Beaumont"
*John Taylor - "Wit and Mirth"

Births

*"date unknown" - Henry Muddiman, journalist and publisher (died 1692)
*"date unknown" - Roderick O'Flaherty, historian (died c.1717)

Deaths

*July 13 - Caspar Bartholin the Elder, theologian (born 1585)
*August - Thomas James, librarian (born c.1573)
*November - Robert Hayman, poet (born 1574)
*"date unknown" - Thomas Goffe, dramatist (born 1591)
*"date unknown" - John Speed, historian and cartographer (born 1542)


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