1642 in literature

none July 2013 1642 literature July 2020 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1642. Events May – The 35-year-old John Milton marries the teenage Mary Powell. A few weeks later she leaves him in London and returns to her family in Oxfordshire.Gordon Campbell Milton, John (1608–1674) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 Online http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/18800 2013-10-25 10.1093/ref:odnb/18800 May/June – English Cavalier poet Richard Lovelace is incarcerated in the Gatehouse Prison, Westminster for defying Parliament. During his time there he may be writing "To Althea, from Prison".Anthony Wood Anthony Wood (antiquary) Athenæ Oxonienses https://archive.org/details/athenaeoxoniense00wood September 2 – London theatre closure 1642: The theatres in London are closed by order of the Puritan Long Parliament; the "lascivious mirth and levity" of stage plays are to "cease and be forborn" for the next 18 years, during the English Civil War and the Interregnum. Richard Brome's A Jovial Crew is reportedly staged on the final day, making it the last to be legitimately performed in the era of English Renaissance theatre. New books Prose Thomas Browne – Religio Medici Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède – Cassandre Thomas Fuller – The Holy State and the Profane State Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft – Nederduytsche Historiën (History of the Netherlands, publication begins) Sir Walter Ralegh – The Prince, or Maxims of State Alonso de Castillo Solórzano – La garduña de Sevilla y anzuelo de las bolsas Tohfatu'l-Ahbab, a Persian-language work by Muhammad Ali KashmiriMuḥammad, A. K., & Pandit, K. N. (2009). A Muslim missionary in mediaeval Kashmir: Being the English translation of Tohfatu'l-ahbab. New Delhi: Voice of India. Drama Antonio Coello – Los empeños de seis horas (approximate date) Pierre Corneille – Polyeucte François le Métel de Boisrobert – La Belle Palène Donaires del gusto Pierre du Ryer – Saul Francis Jaques – The Queen of Corsica James Shirley – The Sisters Jan Vos – Klucht van Oene (The Farce of Oene) Poetry John Denham – Cooper's Hill, the first example in English of a poem devoted to local description, in this case the Thames scenery around the author's home at Egham in Surrey Richard Lovelace – "To Althea, from Prison" Alonso de Castillo Solórzano – Academias morales de las musas Births March 15 (baptised) – Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, English politician and writer (died 1711) April 21 – Simon de la Loubère, French diplomat, writer, mathematician and poet (died 1729) April 30 – Christian Weise, German dramatist and poet (died 1708)Nathan Haskell Dole The Bibliophile Dictionary: A Biographical Record of the Great Authors https://books.google.com/books?id=x0KZEYvVMOgC&pg=PT577 December 2003 The Minerva Group, Inc. 978-1-4102-1040-1 577– December 30 – Vincenzo da Filicaja, Florentine poet (died 1707) Unknown dates Abdul-Qādir Bīdel, Persian Sufi poet (died 1720) Josep Romaguera, Catalan author (died 1723) Ihara Saikaku (井原 西鶴), Japanese poet and creator of the ukiyozōshi (floating world) genre of prose (died 1693) James Tyrrell, English political philosopher (died 1718) Probable year of birth Thomas Shadwell, English dramatist (died 1698) Edward Taylor, English-born colonial American poet and author (died 1729) Deaths May 14 – Nicolas Ysambert, French theologian (born c. 1565) June 1 – Sir John Suckling, English poet (born 1609) July 5 – Festus Hommius, Dutch Calvinist theologian (born 1576)Anthony a Wood Athen Oxonienses: An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops who Have Had Their Education in the University of Oxford. 1967 B. Franklin 1620 Unknown dates Abdul-Haqq Dehlavi, Indian Islamic scholar and writer (born 1551) Sir Francis Kynaston, English poet (born 1587) James Mabbe, English scholar, poet and translator (born 1572) References 30em