1646 in literature

none March 2019 1646 literature July 2020 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1646. Events March 24 – The King's Men petition Parliament for three-and-a-half years' back pay, even though the London theatres officially remain closed through the middle 1640s. No details of their activities in these years survive. May 5 – Martin Llewellyn's drama The King Found at Southwell is performed at Oxford; it is the last stage piece presented in the city before its surrender to Parliamentary forces in the English Civil War on June 22–24. July – John Lilburne is placed in the Tower of London for denouncing his former commander the Earl of Manchester as a traitor. September 6 – The Biblioteca Palafoxiana is established in Puebla, Mexico, through the donation of books by Bishop Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, perhaps the earliest public library in the American colonies. unknown dates Henry Burkhead's closet drama Cola's Fury, or Lirenda's Misery, based on the Irish Rebellion of 1641 ("Lirenda" is an anagram), is published in Kilkenny (dated 1645). Burkhead presents the historical persons involved under pseudonyms: among others, the Earl of Ormonde as "Osiris" and Sir John Borlase as "Berosus". Jacqueline Pascal is converted to Jansenism, under the influence of her brother, Blaise Pascal.Marguerite Tollemache French Jansenists https://books.google.com/books?id=hHg3AAAAMAAJ 1893 Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner 594 New books Prose Anonymous (John Lilburne?) – London's Liberty in Chains Discovered Anonymous (John Lilburne?) – Vox Plebis, or the People's Outcry Sir Thomas Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Vulgar Errors Thomas Fuller – Andronicus or the Unfortunate Politician Sir John Suckling – An Account of Religion by Reason published Vida y hechos de Estebanillo González Baltasar Gracián – El discreto Diego de Saavedra Fajardo – Corona gótica, castellana y austríaca Children John Cotton – Spiritual Milk for Boston Babes Drama Pierre Corneille – Théodore Jean de Rotrou Célie Le Veritable Saint Genest James Shirley – The Triumph of Beauty (masque) Sir John Suckling – Fragmenta Aurea, collected plays, including The Sad One (unfinished) Poetry Richard Crashaw – Steps to the Temple Martin Lluelyn – Men-Miracles John Milton – Poems of Mr. John Milton, Both English and Latin, compos'd at several times (dated 1645, published early 1646) Francis Quarles – The Shepherds' Oracle James Shirley – Poems Henry Vaughan – Poems, with the Tenth Satire of Juvenal Englished Births March 19 – Michael Kongehl, German poet (died 1710)Flood John Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire: A Bio-bibliographical Handbook 2011 Walter de Gruyter 9783110912746 1035 https://books.google.com/books?id=B1ujbUq3NOcC&pg=PA1035 en July 1 – Gottfried Leibniz, German mathematician and philosopher (died 1716)Kenneth J. Berry Janis E. Johnston Paul W. Mielke Jr. A Chronicle of Permutation Statistical Methods: 1920–2000, and Beyond https://books.google.com/books?id=BX3BBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA90 11 April 2014 Springer Science & Business Media 978-3-319-02744-9 90 July 20 – Eusèbe Renaudot, French theologian and orientalist (died 1720) Probable – John Mason, English poet, cleric and hymnist (died 1694) Deaths August 19 – Alexander Henderson, Scottish theologian (born c. 1583) September 17 – Erycius Puteanus, Netherlandish philologist and encyclopedist (born 1574) October 23 – David Wedderburn, Scottish educationist and schoolbook author (born 1580) December 23 – François Maynard, French poet (born c. 1582)Maynard, François de 17 936 References