1653 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1653.
Events
- January 17 – John Evelyn begins to set out gardens at Sayes Court, Deptford, the house he has recently bought.[1]
- March 26 – James Shirley's masque Cupid and Death is performed before the Portuguese ambassador in London.[2]
- June – English actor Robert Cox is arrested at the Red Bull Theatre in London for performing a "droll" deemed to be a play (prohibited during the English Interregnum).[3]
- September 9 – London publisher Humphrey Moseley enters into the Stationers' Register the plays The History of Cardenio (1613), attributed posthumously to William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, and Henry I (1624) and Henry II, attributed to Shakespeare and Robert Davenport; none survive.
- Pastor Daniel Klein's Grammatica Litvanica, the first printed prescriptive grammar of the Lithuanian language, is published in Latin by Johann Reusner in Königsberg, Duchy of Prussia,[4] introducing the distinctive Lithuanian letter Ė.
New books
Prose
- Ralph Austen – A Treatise on Fruit-trees, showing the manner of grafting, setting, pruning, and ordering of them in all respects
- Baltasar Gracián – El criticón (second part)
- Blaise Pascal – Traité du triangle arithmétique
- Jeremy Taylor – Twenty-five Sermons
- Sir Thomas Urquhart
- First English translation of Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel, Books I and II
- Logopandecteision
- Izaak Walton -The Compleat Angler
- Arthur Wilson – The History of Great Britain, being the Life and Reign of King James I
Drama
- Richard Brome – Five New Plays, a collection of his dramas including A Mad Couple Well-Match'd, The Novella, The Court Beggar, The City Wit, and The Damoiselle
- John Ford (attributed) – The Queen (published)[5]
- William Heminges – The Fatal Contract (published)[6]
- Henry Killigrew – Pallantus and Eudora (published; Killigrew's revision of his own The Conspiracy, 1638)
- Philippe Quinault – Les Rivales
- James Shirley – The Court Secret (published)
- Lope de Vega – La discreta enamorada
- Agustín Moreto – El lindo don Diego
- Paul Scarron – Don Japhel d'Arménie
Poetry
- Margaret Cavendish – Poems and Fancies[7]
Births
- January 13 – Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (died 1705)
- March 8 – Goodwin Wharton, English autobiographer and politician (died 1704)
- Unknown date – Chikamatsu Monzaemon (近松 門左衛門), Japanese dramatist (died 1725)
- Probable year of birth – Nathaniel Lee, English dramatist (died 1692)
Deaths
- May 26 – Robert Filmer, English political theorist (born 1558)
- July 10 – Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (born 1600)
- September 3 – Claudius Salmasius, French classical scholar (born 1588)
- September 23 – Jacques Goar, French Hellenist (born 1601)[8]
- October 15 – Piaras Feiritéar, Irish-language poet and rebel (hanged; born c. 1600)
- December – John Taylor, English poet and waterman (born 1578)
- Unknown date
- Zachary Boyd, Scottish poet (born 1585)
- Lucrezia Marinella, Italian poet, writer and supporter of women's rights (born 1571)[9]