1631 in literature
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This article is a summary of the literary events and publications of 1631.
Events
- January 9 â Love's Triumph Through Callipolis, a masque written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones, is staged at Whitehall Palace.
- January 11 â The Master of the Revels in England refuses to license Philip Massinger's new play, Believe as You List, because of its seditious content; it is first performed in a revised version on May 7.
- February 5 â Puritan minister and theologian Roger Williams emigrates from England to Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- February 22 â Chloridia, the year's second Jonson/Jones masque, is performed.
- June 10 â The King's Men perform Pericles, Prince of Tyre (c.1607/8) at the Globe Theatre.
- The young Blaise Pascal moves with his family to Paris.[1]
- Thomas Hobbes is employed as a tutor by the Cavendish family, to teach the future Earl of Devonshire.[2]
- Publication of the "Wicked Bible" by Robert Barker and Martin Lucas, the royal printers in London, an edition of the King James Version of the Bible in which a typesetting erratum leaves the seventh of the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:14) with the word not omitted from the sentence "Thou shalt not commit adultery". Copies are withdrawn and about a year later the publishers are called to the Star Chamber, fined £300 and have their licence to print revoked.
New books
Prose
- Johann Philipp Abelin â Arma Suecica, volume 1
- Moses Amyraut â Traité des religions
- Collected works of Jacobus Arminius published posthumously in Frankfurt
- Robert Fludd â Medicina Catholica (Volume 2)
- Thomas Harriot â Artis analyticae praxis
- James Mabbe â Celestina, or the Tragicomedy of Calisto and Melibea, a 300-page closet drama or "novel in dialogue," translated from the Spanish-language original of Fernando de Rojas, La Celestina (1499)
- Wicked Bible, a reprint of the King James Bible notable for typographical errors
- William Oughtred â Clavis mathematicae
Drama
- Anonymous â Fair Em published
- George Chapman â Caesar and Pompey published
- Henry Chettle â Hoffman published
- Lope de Vega
- Punishment without Revenge (El castigo sin venganza)
- La noche de San Juan
- Thomas Goffe â The Raging Turk published
- Peter Hausted â Senile Odium
- Thomas Heywood â The Fair Maid of the West, Parts 1 and 2 (published; probably performed in the previous year)[3]
- Ben Jonson
- Chloridia (masque)
- Love's Triumph Through Callipolis (masque)
- Ralph Knevet â Rhodon and Iris (masque)
- James Mabbe â The Spanish Bawd published
- Jean Mairet â La Silvanire, ou la Morte-vive
- Shackerley Marmion â Holland's Leaguer runs for a highly unusual six straight performances
- John Marston, with William Barkstead & Lewis Machin (?) â The Insatiate Countess published
- Philip Massinger
- Thomas May â Antigone, the Theban Princess published
- Jean Rotrou â L'Hypocondriaque
- James Shirley
- The Traitor
- Love's Cruelty
- The Humorous Courtier
- Love Tricks published as The School of Compliment
- Aurelian Townshend â Albion's Triumph (masque)
- Robert Ward (?) â Fucus Histriomastix
- Arthur Wilson â The Swisser
- Richard Zouche â The Sophister
Poetry
- Richard Braithwait â The English Gentleman
Births
- January 1 â Katharine Philips (Orinda), English poet (died 1664)
- February 22 â Peder Syv, Danish philologist, folklorist and priest (died 1702)
- March 16 â René Le Bossu, French critic (died 1680)
- April â John Phillips, English satirist and nephew of John Milton (died 1706)[4]
- July 15 â Richard Cumberland, English philosopher (died 1718)
- August 9 â John Dryden, English poet and dramatist (died 1700)
- October 18 â Michael Wigglesworth, English-born American poet and minister (died 1705)
- Unknown date â John Barret, English religious writer and Presbyterian minister (died 1713)
Deaths
- February 7 â Gabriel Harvey, English poet and author (born c. 1545)
- March 31 â John Donne, English poet and Dean of St Paul's (born 1572)
- May 6 â Robert Bruce Cotton, English antiquary and founder of Cotton Library (born 1570)
- May 25 â Samuel Harsnett, English religious writer and archbishop (born 1561)
- May 26 â Enrico Caterino Davila, Italian historian, murdered (born 1576)
- July 28 â Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, Spanish dramatist (born 1569)[5]
- September 22 â Cardinal Federico Borromeo, Italian archbishop and founder of Biblioteca Ambrosiana (born 1564)
- October 26
- Lewis Bayly, Welsh or Scottish-born religious writer and bishop writing in English (unknown year of birth)
- Catherine de Parthenay, Viscountess and Princess of Rohan, French Huguenot noblewoman, mathematician, poet, playwright and translator (born 1554)
- November 29 â Edmond Richer, French theologian (born 1559)
- December 23 â Michael Drayton, English poet (born 1563)