1628 in literature

1628 in literature

The year 1628 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

*Ben Jonson is appointed city chronologer of London.
*Ten-year-old Abraham Cowley produces his "Tragicall History of Piramus and Thisbe".
*On Tuesday, July 29, the King's Men perform "Henry VIII" at the Globe Theatre. George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham is in the audience, but leaves after watching the play's Duke of Buckingham beheaded. (Villiers is assassinated less than a month later.)

New books

* John Clavell - "A Recantation of an Ill Led Life"
*René Descartes - "Rules for the Direction of the Mind"
*Thomas Dekker - "Wars, Wars, Wars"
*John Earle, Bishop of Salisbury - "Microcosmographie"
*Thomas Hobbes - translation of Thucydides' "History of the Peloponnesian War"
*George Wither - "Britain's Remembrancer"

New drama

*John Ford - "The Lover's Melancholy"
*Thomas May - "Julia Agrippina"
*James Shirley - "The Witty Fair One"

Poetry

*Phineas Fletcher - "Britain's Ida" (falsely attributed to Edmund Spenser)
*Robert Hayman - "Quodlibets" (first book of English poetry written in Canada)

Births

*January 12 - Charles Perrault, fairytale author (died 1703)
*November 28 - John Bunyan, Christian apologist (died 1688)

Deaths

*October 16 - François de Malherbe, poet and critic (born 1555)


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