1639 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1639.
Events
- c. January â The first printing press in British North America is launched in Cambridge, Massachusetts by Stephen Daye.
- February 14 â French writers Jacques Esprit and François de La Mothe Le Vayer are elected to the Académie française.
- May 21 â The King's Men act John Fletcher's The Mad Lover in London.
- December â Blaise Pascal's family move to Rouen.[1]
- December 7 â Francisco de Quevedo is arrested and imprisoned at León, Spain.[2]
- unknown dates
- Simon Dach becomes professor of poetry at the University of Königsberg.
- Archbishop William Laud donates the manuscript of the Peterborough Chronicle to the Bodleian Library in Oxford.
- Thomas Heywood writes Londini Status Pacatus, the Lord Mayor of the City of London's annual pageant.[3] It will be the last such in London for 15 years, due to the English Civil War, but will resume under the Commonwealth.
New books
Prose
- Jean du Vergier de Hauranne â Théologie familière, ou Instruction de ce que le Chrétien doit croire et faire en cette vie pour être sauvé
- Francisco de Quevedo â La isla de los monopantos
- Jan Marek Marci â De proportione motus seu regula sphygmica
- Friedrich Spanheim â Commentaire historique de la vie et de la mort de . . Christofle Vicomte de Dohna
- Henry Spelman (ed.) â Concilia, Decreta, Leges, Constitutiones in re Ecclesiarum Orbis Britannici (3 vols, containing many forgeries)[4]
Drama
- Lodowick Carlell â Arviragus and Philicia, Parts 1 and 2 (published)
- George Chapman and James Shirley â The Tragedy of Chabot (published)
- Aston Cockayne â A Masque at Bretbie
- Pierre Corneille â L'Illusion comique, (published)
- T. D. (authorship disputed) â The Bloody Banquet (published)
- William Davenant â The Spanish Lovers
- Robert Davenport â A New Trick to Cheat the Devil (published)
- John Fletcher (posthumously)
- Monsieur Thomas (published)
- Wit Without Money (published)
- Henry Glapthorne
- Argalus and Parthenia (published)
- Albertus Wallenstein (published)
- Sir William Lower â The Phoenix in Her Flames
- Philip Massinger â The Unnatural Combat published
- Jasper Mayne â The City Match
- James Shirley
- The Politician (performed)
- The Ball
- The Maid's Revenge
- The Changes, or Love in a Maze (published)
- Sir John Suckling â Brennoralt, or the Discontented Colonel
Poetry
- Richard Corbet â Certain Elegant Poems
- John Clarke â Paroemiologia ("Early to bed and early to rise...")
- Henry Glapthorne â Poems, including a series addressed to "Lucinda"
- Francis Quarles â Memorials Upon the Death of Sir Robert Quarles, Knight
Births
- February 6 â Daniel Georg Morhof, German critic (died 1691)
- December 22 â Jean Racine, French dramatist (died 1699)
- unknown dates
- Thomas Ellwood, English religious writer (died 1713)
- César Vichard de Saint-Réal, French novelist (died 1692)
- probable â Charles Sedley, English wit and dramatist (died 1701)
Deaths
- January â Shackerley Marmion, English dramatist (born 1603)[5]
- January 23 â Francisco Maldonado de Silva, Argentinian poet (burned at stake, born 1592)
- May 21 â Tommaso Campanella, Italian poet and theologian (born 1568)
- August 4 â Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, New Spanish dramatist (born c. 1581)
- August 20 â Martin Opitz von Boberfeld, German poet (born 1597)
- October â Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, English poet, translator and dramatist (born 1585)
- November 26 â John Spottiswoode, Scottish historian (born 1565)[6]
- Possible date â John Ford, English dramatist and poet (born 1586)