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1628 literature
July 2020
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1628.
Events
July 29 (Tuesday) – The King's Men perform Henry VIII at the Globe Theatre, London. George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham is in the audience, but leaves after watching the play's Duke of Buckingham beheaded. The character is based on the historical Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, who had been executed for treason in 1521. Villiers is assassinated less than a month later.
Ten-year-old Abraham Cowley produces his Tragicall History of Piramus and Thisbe.
Construction of St John's College Old Library, Cambridge, is completed after five years.An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge https://books.google.com/books?id=rWNOAAAAYAAJ 1959 H.M. Stationery Office 232
New books
Prose
Robert Arnauld d'Andilly – fr Stances pour Jésus-Christ
John Clavell – A Recantation of an Ill Led LifePafford, John, ed. John Clavell, 1601-43: Highwayman, Author, Lawyer and Doctor—with a reprint Of his poem, A Recantation of an Ill Led Life, 1634. Oxford: Leopard’s Head PL, 1993: 48
Sir John Coke – The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England, or, a Commentary upon Littleton
Thomas Dekker – Wars, Wars, WarsThomas Dekker Old Fortunatus: a play https://books.google.com/books?id=JKssAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR10 1620 J.M. Dent 10
John Earle, Bishop of Salisbury – Microcosmographie
Nicolas des Escuteaux – fr Les jaloux desdains de Chrysis
William Harvey – Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus
Thomas Hobbes – translation of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War
Samuel Przypkowski – la Dissertatio de pace
Tobias Venner – The baths of Bathe
George Wither – Britain's Remembrancer
Drama
John Ford – The Lover's Melancholy
Ivan Gundulić – Dubravka
Thomas May – Julia Agrippina
James Shirley – The Witty Fair One
Poetry
1628 in 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, French fairytale author (died 1703)
November 28 – John Bunyan, English religious writer (died 1703)
Unknown date – Abu Salim al-Ayyashi, Moroccan travel writer, poet and scholar (died 1679)
Deaths
February – Christopher Brooke, English poet, lawyer and politician (date of birth unknown)
February 5 (burial) – Christopher Middleton, English poet and translator (born c. 1560)
March 23 – Robert Daborne, English dramatist (born c. 1580)
October 16 – François de Malherbe, French poet and critic (born 1555)François de Malherbe French poet Britannica https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francois-de-Malherbe www.britannica.com 4 June 2022 en
Unknown date – Edward Allde, English printer (date of birth unknown)
Probable year of death – Nicolas des Escuteaux, French novelist (born c. 1570)
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