1641 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1641.
Events
- March 12 â Abraham Cowley's play The Guardian is acted at Trinity College, Cambridge, in the presence of Prince Charles (later King Charles II).[1]
- Spring â Pierre Corneille marries Marie de Lampérière.[2]
- c. May â William Davenant is convicted of high treason for his part in the First Army Plot in England and flees to France.
- August 5 â Because of an increase in cases of bubonic plague, John Lowin delivers warrants to London theatres ordering them to close.[3]
- c. December â Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, becomes an advisor to King Charles I of England.
New books
Prose
- George Abbot â Vindiciae Sabbathi
- Moses Amyraut â De l'elevation de la foy et de l'abaissement de la raison en la creance des mysteres de la religion
- Richard Baker â Apologie for Laymen's Writing in Divinity, with a Short Meditation upon the Fall of Lucifer
- Sir Edward Coke â The Complete Copyholder
- LuÃs Vélez de Guevara â El Diablo cojuelo
- René Descartes â Meditations on First Philosophy
- William Habington â Observations upon History
- Joseph Hall â Episcopacy by Divine Right
- Samuel Hartlib (nominal author, really by Gabriel Plattes) â A Description of the Famous Kingdom of Macaria
- Thomas Heywood â The Life of Merlin surnamed Ambrosius
- Thomas Hobbes â De Cive
- Sir Francis Kynaston â Leoline and Sydanis
- John Milton â Of Reformation
- Sir Robert Naunton (died 1635) â Fragmenta Regalia, or Observations on the late Queen Elizabeth, her Times and Favourites
- Mother Shipton (died 1561, attributed) â The prophesie of Mother Shipton in the raigne of King Henry the eighth
- Sir Henry Spelman â De Sepultura
- Heinrich Stahl â Leyen Spiegel
- John Taylor â John Taylors Last Voyage and Adventure
- Nicolaes Tulp â Observationes Medicae
- John Wilkins â Mercury, or The Secret and Swift Messenger
- Francisco de Quevedo â Providencia de Dios
- Juan Eusebio Nieremberg â De la hermosura de Dios y su amabilidad, por las infinitas perfecciones del ser divino
- Luis Vélez de Guevara â El diablo Cojuelo
Drama
- Richard Braithwaite â Mercurius Britanicus
- Richard Brome â A Jovial Crew
- Abraham Cowley â The Guardian
- John Day â The Parliament of Bees (published)
- John Denham â The Sophy
- Thomas Killigrew â The Prisoners and Claricilla (published)
- Shackerley Marmion â The Antiquary (published)
- James Shirley â The Cardinal
- John Tatham â The Distracted State
- Lope de Vega (died 1635) â El caballero de Olmedo (posthumous, written in 1620)
- Jan Vos â Aran en Titus, of wraak en weerwraak (Aran and Titus, or Revenge and Vengeance)
Births
- April 8 (baptised) â William Wycherley, English playwright (died 1716)
- April 15 â Robert Sibbald, Scottish historian (died 1722)[4]
- March 15 (baptised) â Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, English politician and writer (died 1711)
- May 16 â Dudley North, English economist, merchant and politician (died 1691)
- May â Juan Núñez de la Peña, Spanish historian (died 1721)
- Late October â Henry Dodwell, Irish-born theologian (died 1711)
- unknown dates
- Pierre Allix, French-born Protestant preacher and writer (died 1717)
- William Sherlock, English churchman and theologian (died 1707)
Deaths
- January 11
- Franciscus Gomarus, Dutch theologian (born 1563)
- Juan de Jáuregui, Spanish poet and painter (born 1583)
- February 15 â Sara Copia Sullam, Italian poet and writer (born 1592)[5]
- April 6 (buried) â Thomas Nabbes, English dramatist (born 1605)
- April 13 â Richard Montagu, English bishop and religious controversialist (born 1577)
- June 26 â Antony Hickey, Irish Franciscan theologian (born 1586)
- July 15 â Arthur Johnston, Scottish poet and physician (born c. 1579)[6]
- August 9 â Augustine Baker, Welsh-born Benedictine mystic and ascetic writer, of plague (born 1575)[7]
- August 16 â Thomas Heywood, English playwright, actor, poet and author (born c. 1573)
- August (between 14 and 27) â Sir William Vaughan, Welsh writer and colonist (born 1575)