1654 in literature

none 1654 literature July 2020 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1654. Events July – Lady Dorothy Osborne plays the leading role in a country-house staging of Sir William Berkeley's tragicomedy The Lost Lady. While the London theatres remain closed, amateur theatricals continue at private houses in England. Like performances of courtly masques before 1642, many of these performances feature women, foreshadowing the acceptance of professional women performers in the early Restoration era.Jane Milling Peter Thomson Joseph Walter Donohue (Jr.) Baz Kershaw The Cambridge History of British Theatre https://books.google.com/books?id=0_cGBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA463 23 November 2004 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-65040-3 463 New books Prose Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery – Parlhenissa, a novel Martino Martini – De Bello Tartarico Historia John Milton – Defensio Secunda Richard Sherlock – The Quaker's Wilde Questions objected against the Ministers of the Gospel.Lee Sidney Sherlock, Richard Dictionary of National Biography Vol. LII Smith, Elder & Co. 1897 http://www.oxforddnb.com/templates/olddnb.jsp?articleid=25379 2007-11-14Sherlock, Richard Drama Anonymous – Alphonsus Emperor of Germany published (wrongly attributed to George Chapman) Alexander Brome – The Cunning Lovers Richard Flecknoe – Love's Dominion Henry Glapthorne (?) – Revenge for Honour published (wrongly attributed to George Chapman) James Howell – The Nuptials of Peleus and Thetis (published) Thomas Jordan – Cupid His Coronation Thomas May – Two Tragedies, viz. Cleopatra and Agrippina (published) Robert Mead – The Combat of Love and Friendship (published) John Webster (and Thomas Heywood?) – Appius and Virginia (published) Álvaro Cubillo de Aragón El invisible príncipe del Baúl Las muñecas de Marcela El señor de Noches Buenas Agustín Moreto De fuera vendrá quien de casa te echará El desdén, con el desdén (first published) Cyrano de Bergerac – Le Pédant joué ("The Pedant Tricked")Merriam-Webster, Inc MERRIAM-WEBSTER STAFF Encyclopaedia Britannica Publishers, Inc. Staff Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=eKNK1YwHcQ4C&pg=PA293 1995 Merriam-Webster 978-0-87779-042-6 293 Philippe Quinault – L'Amant indiscret Joost van den Vondel – Lucifer Poetry Thomas Washbourne – Divine Poems Births January 10 – Joshua Barnes, English scholar and fiction writer (died 1712) January 22 – Richard Blackmore, English poet and physician (died 1729) March – Anne Lefèvre (Madame Dacier), French scholar and translator (died 1720)Anne Commire Deborah Klezmer Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia https://books.google.com/books?id=O0QOAQAAMAAJ 1999 Yorkin Publications 978-0-7876-4063-7 282 March 16 – Andreas Acoluthus, German Orientalist (died 1704) June 24 – Thomas Fuller, English writer and physician (died 1734) Unknown dates John Bellers, English writer and Quaker (died 1725) Gerrit van Spaan, Dutch writer (died 1711) Deaths February 18 – Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, French essayist (born 1697) February 19 – Edmund Chilmead, English writer and translator (born 1610) April 5 – Jacobus Trigland, Dutch theologian (born 1583) October – John Bastwick, English physician and controversialist (born 1593) November 30 William Habington, English poet (born 1605) John Selden, English polymath (born 1584) December – Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Ancram, Scottish nobleman and writer (born c. 1578) Unknown dates Walter Blith, English writer on husbandry (born 1605)Joan Thirsk Agrarian History of England and Wales, 1750-1850, Part 1: Regional Farming and Systems https://books.google.com/books?id=0QQ9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA182 1984 CUP Archive 978-0-521-20076-9 182 Edward Misselden, English mercantilist writer (born 1608)Andrea Lynne Finkelstein Harmony and the Balance: An Intellectual History of Seventeenth-Century English Economic Thought https://books.google.com/books?id=J54OkKtu8wgC&pg=PA56 21 December 2009 University of Michigan Press 978-0-472-02384-4 56 Alexander Ross, Scottish controversialist (born c. 1590) References 30em