1648 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1648.
Events
- February 11 â Ordinances are passed in England against plays: actors are to be fined and theatres pulled down.[1][2] 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 â Richard Flecknoe sails from Lisbon to Brazil.[3]
- April 7 â Edward Pococke becomes Professor of Hebrew at the University of Oxford, in succession to Dr Morris.
- April 16 â René Descartes meets Frans Burman, resulting in the Conversation with Burman.[4]
- June 9 â Richard Lovelace, an English Cavalier poet, begins his second imprisonment for opposition to Parliament.[5]
- June â Pierre Gassendi, having given up lecturing at the Collège Royal because of ill-health, returns to his home area of Digne.[6]
- July 14 â During the siege of Colchester, a cannon nicknamed Humpty Dumpty, is blown off the walls, possibly inspiring the nursery rhyme.
- December â 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 Although it will not be published until 1660, he produces presentation copies for friends.[7]
- Richard Crashaw, exiled in Paris, publishes two hymns in Latin.
- King Frederick III of Denmark establishes the Royal Library, Denmark.[8]
New books
Prose
- Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède â Cléopâtre
- Robert Filmer â Freeholders Grand Inquest touching our Sovereign Lord the King and his Parliament
- Thomas Gage â The English-American, or a New Survey of the West Indies
- Baltasar Gracián â Agudeza y arte de ingenio
- Francisco MartÃnez de Mata â Memorial a razón de la despoblación y pobreza de España y su remedio
- José GarcÃa de Salcedo Coronel â Comentarios al PanegÃrico del Duque de Lerma de Luis de Góngora
- Fray Marcos de Salmerón â El prÃncipe escondido
- Madeleine de Scudéry â Artamène, ou le Grand Cyrus, volume 1[9]
- John Wilkins â Mathematical Magick
- Gerrard Winstanley â The Mystery of God
Drama
- Anonymous â Crafty Cromwell
- Anonymous â Kentish Fair, or the Parliament Sold to Their Best Worth[10]
- Anonymous ("Mercurius Melancholicus") â Mistress Parliament Her Gossiping[11]
- Jasper Mayne â The Amorous War
Poetry
- Christen Aagaard â Threni Hyperborci[12]
- Richard Corbet â Poetica Stromata
- Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland â Otia Sacra
- Robert Herrick[13]
- Hesperides
- Noble Numbers
- Francisco de Borja y Aragón â Obras en verso[14]
- Francisco López de Zárate â La invención de la Cruz[15]
- Francisco de Quevedo (ed. Jusepe Antonio González de Salas) â El Parnaso español, en dos cumbre dividido, con las nueve musas
Births
- February 1 â Elkanah Settle, English poet and dramatist (died 1724)
- November 12 â Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexican Hieronymite nun, polymath, poet and playwright (died 1695)
- Unknown date â Gaspard Abeille, French poet (died 1718)
- Earliest year â Mihai IÈtvanovici, Wallachian typographer and poet (died c. 1720)
Deaths
- February 2 â George Abbot, English writer (born c. 1603)
- February 22 â Wilhelm Lamormaini, Luxembourgish Jesuit theologian (born 1570)
- March 12 â Tirso de Molina, Spanish dramatist (born 1571)[16]
- May 26 â Vincent Voiture, French writer and poet (born 1597)[17]
- May 28 (bur.) â William Percy, English poet and playwright (born 1570/74)[18]
- July 31 â Benedictus van Haeften, Dutch theologian (born 1588)
- August 20 â Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury Anglo-Welsh writer and soldier (born 1574)[19]
- September 1 â Marin Mersenne, French theologian and philosopher (born 1588)
- December 16 â Arthur Duck, English lawyer and author (born 1580)[20]