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1648 literature
July 2020
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1648.
Events
February 11 – Ordinances are passed in England against plays: actors are to be fined and theatres pulled down.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 182–183 0-7126-5616-2Jane Milling Peter Thomson The Cambridge History of British Theatre Cambridge University Press 2004 459 This comes six days after the King's Men (playing company) are arrested at the Cockpit Theatre in London during an illegal performance of Rollo Duke of Normandy.
February – Richard Flecknoe sails from Lisbon to Brazil.Fred Mayer The Prose Characters of Richard Flecknoe: A Critical Edition https://books.google.com/books?id=OECaAAAAIAAJ 1987 Garland 978-0-8240-6019-0 lxxii
April 7 – Edward Pococke becomes Professor of Hebrew at the University of Oxford, in succession to Dr Morris.
April 16 – René Descartes meets Frans Burman, resulting in the Conversation with Burman.René Descartes: Principles of Philosophy: Translated, with Explanatory Notes https://books.google.com/books?id=2KNFBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA64 6 December 2012 Springer Science & Business Media 978-94-009-7888-1 64
June 9 – Richard Lovelace, an English Cavalier poet, begins his second imprisonment for opposition to Parliament.Life of Richard Lovelace.
June – Pierre Gassendi, having given up lecturing at the Collège Royal because of ill-health, returns to his home area of Digne.Abbé A. Martin Histoire de la vie et des écrits de Pierre Gassendi https://books.google.com/books?id=cTM-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA149 1854 149
July 14 – During the siege of Colchester, a cannon nicknamed Humpty Dumpty, is blown off the walls, possibly inspiring the nursery rhyme.
December – King Charles I is imprisoned in Windsor Castle, where he reportedly spends much of his time reading the plays of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson.
unknown dates
Robert Boyle writes Seraphic Love, his first important work. Although it will not be published until 1660, he produces presentation copies for friends.Lawrence Principe The Aspiring Adept: Robert Boyle and His Alchemical Quest https://books.google.com/books?id=nsrrMF81RHEC&pg=PA231 8 October 2000 Princeton University Press 0-691-05082-1 231
Richard Crashaw, exiled in Paris, publishes two hymns in Latin.
King Frederick III of Denmark establishes the Royal Library, Denmark.David H. Stam International Dictionary of Library Histories https://books.google.com/books?id=APtYCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA157 November 2001 Routledge 978-1-136-77785-1 157
New books
Prose
Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède – Cléopâtre
Robert Filmer – Freeholders Grand Inquest touching our Sovereign Lord the King and his Parliament
Thomas Gage – The English-American, or a New Survey of the West Indies
Baltasar Gracián – Agudeza y arte de ingenio
Francisco Martínez de Mata – Memorial a razón de la despoblación y pobreza de España y su remedio
José García de Salcedo Coronel – Comentarios al Panegírico del Duque de Lerma de Luis de Góngora
Fray Marcos de Salmerón – El príncipe escondido
Madeleine de Scudéry – Artamène, ou le Grand Cyrus, volume 1German Aesthetic and Literary Criticism: Winckelmann, Lessing, Hamann, Herder, Schiller and Goethe Cambridge University Press 1985 288
John Wilkins – Mathematical Magick
Gerrard Winstanley – The Mystery of God
Drama
Anonymous – Crafty Cromwell
Anonymous – Kentish Fair, or the Parliament Sold to Their Best Worth Harbage Alfred Annals of English drama, 975-1700 : an analytical record of all plays, extant or lost, chronologically arranged and indexed by authors, titles, dramatic companies, & c Routledge London New York 1989 9780415010993 282
Anonymous ("Mercurius Melancholicus") – Mistress Parliament Her Gossiping Elmer Peter Witchcraft, witch-hunting, and politics in early modern England Oxford University Press Oxford, United Kingdom 2016 9780198717720 316
Jasper Mayne – The Amorous War
Poetry
Christen Aagaard – Threni HyperborciThe New American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge D. Appleton 1873 2
Richard Corbet – Poetica Stromata
Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland – Otia Sacra
Robert Herrick Marcus Leah Unediting the Renaissance: Shakespeare, Marlowe, Milton Routledge London New York 1996 9780415099349 183 en
Hesperides
Noble Numbers
Francisco de Borja y Aragón – Obras en verso Belmonte Javier Las obras en verso del príncipe de Esquilache: amateurismo y conciencia literaria Tamesis Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK Rochester, NY 2007 9781855661493 106
Francisco López de Zárate – La invención de la Cruz J. Bertrand Payne Haydn's Universal Index of Biography Salzwasser-Verlag GmbH 2020 9783846047705 584
Francisco de Quevedo (ed. Jusepe Antonio González de Salas) – El Parnaso español, en dos cumbre dividido, con las nueve musas
Births
February 1 – Elkanah Settle, English poet and dramatist (died 1724)
November 12 – Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexican Hieronymite nun, polymath, poet and playwright (died 1695)
Unknown date – Gaspard Abeille, French poet (died 1718)
Earliest year – Mihai Iștvanovici, Wallachian typographer and poet (died c. 1720)
Deaths
February 2 – George Abbot, English writer (born c. 1603)
February 22 – Wilhelm Lamormaini, Luxembourgish Jesuit theologian (born 1570)
March 12 – Tirso de Molina, Spanish dramatist (born 1571) Darst David The comic art of Tirso de Molina Dept. of Romance Languages, University of North Carolina Distribuido por Editorial Castalia Chapel Hill Madrid 1974 9788439920557 11
May 26 – Vincent Voiture, French writer and poet (born 1597) Smet Ingrid Menippean satire and the republic of letters, 1581-1655 Librairie Droz Genève 1996 9782600001472 231
May 28 (bur.) – William Percy, English poet and playwright (born 1570/74)Bodleian Library, MS Wood F.4, p. 83; qtd. Harold N. Hillebrand, "William Percy: An Elizabethan Amateur," Huntington Library Quarterly 1 (1938): 400.
July 31 – Benedictus van Haeften, Dutch theologian (born 1588)
August 20 – Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury Anglo-Welsh writer and soldier (born 1574)262735
September 1 – Marin Mersenne, French theologian and philosopher (born 1588)
December 16 – Arthur Duck, English lawyer and author (born 1580)Duck, Arthur
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