1655 in literature

none April 2019 1655 literature July 2020 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1655. Events February 24 – The English playwright Thomas Porter abducts his future bride Anne Blount.Montague Summers The Playhouse of Pepys https://books.google.com/books?id=EDRaAAAAMAAJ 1964 Humanities Press 230 9780391004702 March 26 – The playwright Thomas Porter kills a soldier named Thomas Salkeld in Covent Garden, probably in a duel, is consequently tried for murder, pleads guilty to manslaughter, is allowed benefit of clergy, and is sentenced to be burned in the hand. May–October – Church of England clergyman Jeremy Taylor is imprisoned at Chepstow Castle for an injudicious preface to his popular manual of devotion, enm Golden Grove; or a Manuall of daily prayers and letanies, published this year. August 6 – The Blackfriars Theatre in London is demolished.Milling Jane Thomson Peter Donohue Joseph W. Kershaw Baz The Cambridge History of British Theatre 2004 Cambridge University Press 9780521650403 462 https://books.google.com/books?id=0_cGBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA462 en October 29 – To celebrate Lord Mayor's Day, Edmund Gayton's pageant Charity Triumphant or the Virgin Show is staged in London; it is the first City pageant in fifteen years. New books Prose John Bramhall – Defense of True Liberty (Anglican divine begins exchange of treatises with Thomas Hobbes) Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle – The World's Olio Nicholas Culpeper – Astrological Judgement of Diseases from the Decumbiture of the Sick Thomas Fuller – The Church History of Britain John Heydon – Eugenius Theodidacticus Michel Millot and Jean L'Ange (attributed) – L'Escole des filles William Prynne A New Discovery of Free-State Tyranny The Quakers Unmasked Thomas Stanley – History of PhilosophyGiovanni Santinello Models of the History of Philosophy: From its Origins in the Renaissance to the 'Historia Philosophica' https://books.google.com/books?id=2PndBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA163 17 April 2013 Springer Science & Business Media 978-94-015-8181-3 163 John Wallis – la Elenchus geomeiriae Hobbianae (attack on the works of Thomas Hobbes) Izaak Walton – The Compleat Angler (2nd edition) Baltasar Gracián – El comulgatorio Francisco de Quevedo – Política de Dios y gobierno de Cristo (second part) Diego de Saavedra Fajardo – Juicio de artes y ciencias Drama Antony Brewer – The Lovesick King Lodowick Carlell – The Passionate Lovers, Parts 1 and 2 Robert Daborne – The Poor Man's Comfort Robert Davenport – King John and Matilda Thomas Heywood and William Rowley – Fortune by Land and Sea Philip Massinger – Three New Plays, a collection that included The Guardian, The Bashful Lover, and (with John Fletcher) A Very Woman James Shirley The Gentleman of Venice The Politician Jeremy Taylor – enm Golden Grove; or a Manuall of daily prayers and letanies Poetry Henry Vaughan – Silex Scintillans (part 2) Births January 1 – Christian Thomasius, German philosopher (died 1728) February 7 – Jean-François Regnard, French dramatist and diarist (died 1709) February 28 – Johann Beer, Austrian author, court official and composer (died 1700) c. November – Jacob Tonson, English bookseller and publisher (died 1736) unknown date – Lin Yining (林以寧), Chinese poet (died c. 1730) Deaths February 25 – Daniel Heinsius, Dutch poet (born 1580)Daniël Heinsius Dutch poet https://www.britannica.com/biography/Daniel-Heinsius Encyclopedia Britannica 7 April 2019 en May 8 – Edward Winslow, English theologian, pamphleteer and New England politician (born 1595) July 28 – Cyrano de Bergerac, French dramatist (born 1619)Cyrano de Bergerac Cyrano de Bergerac: Voyages to the Moon and the Sun https://books.google.com/books?id=AZtcAAAAMAAJ 1923 Routledge & Sons Limited 24 September 7 – François Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist (born c. 1601)The Encyclopedia Americana https://books.google.com/books?id=s4RUAAAAMAAJ 2002 Grolier Incorporated 978-0-7172-0135-8 282 October 24 – Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher (born 1592)Virginia Trimble Thomas R. Williams Katherine Bracher Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers https://books.google.com/books?id=t-BF1CHkc50C&pg=PA408 18 September 2007 Springer Science & Business Media 978-0-387-30400-7 408 probable – John Reynolds, English poet, story-writer and pamphleteer (born c. 1588) References