1655 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1655.
Events
- February 24 â The English playwright Thomas Porter abducts his future bride Anne Blount.[1]
- March 26 â The playwright Thomas Porter kills a soldier named Thomas Salkeld in Covent Garden, probably in a duel, is consequently tried for murder, pleads guilty to manslaughter, is allowed benefit of clergy, and is sentenced to be burned in the hand.
- MayâOctober â Church of England clergyman Jeremy Taylor is imprisoned at Chepstow Castle for an injudicious preface to his popular manual of devotion, Golden Grove; or a Manuall of daily prayers and letanies, published this year.
- August 6 â The Blackfriars Theatre in London is demolished.[2]
- October 29 â To celebrate Lord Mayor's Day, Edmund Gayton's pageant Charity Triumphant or the Virgin Show is staged in London; it is the first City pageant in fifteen years.
New books
Prose
- John Bramhall â Defense of True Liberty (Anglican divine begins exchange of treatises with Thomas Hobbes)
- Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle â The World's Olio
- Nicholas Culpeper â Astrological Judgement of Diseases from the Decumbiture of the Sick
- Thomas Fuller â The Church History of Britain
- John Heydon â Eugenius Theodidacticus
- Michel Millot and Jean L'Ange (attributed) â L'Escole des filles
- William Prynne
- A New Discovery of Free-State Tyranny
- The Quakers Unmasked
- Thomas Stanley â History of Philosophy[3]
- John Wallis â Elenchus geomeiriae Hobbianae (attack on the works of Thomas Hobbes)
- Izaak Walton â The Compleat Angler (2nd edition)
- Baltasar Gracián â El comulgatorio
- Francisco de Quevedo â PolÃtica de Dios y gobierno de Cristo (second part)
- Diego de Saavedra Fajardo â Juicio de artes y ciencias
Drama
- Antony Brewer â The Lovesick King
- Lodowick Carlell â The Passionate Lovers, Parts 1 and 2
- Robert Daborne â The Poor Man's Comfort
- Robert Davenport â King John and Matilda
- Thomas Heywood and William Rowley â Fortune by Land and Sea
- Philip Massinger â Three New Plays, a collection that included The Guardian, The Bashful Lover, and (with John Fletcher) A Very Woman
- James Shirley
- Jeremy Taylor â Golden Grove; or a Manuall of daily prayers and letanies
Poetry
- Henry Vaughan â Silex Scintillans (part 2)
Births
- January 1 â Christian Thomasius, German philosopher (died 1728)
- February 7 â Jean-François Regnard, French dramatist and diarist (died 1709)
- February 28 â Johann Beer, Austrian author, court official and composer (died 1700)
- c. November â Jacob Tonson, English bookseller and publisher (died 1736)
- unknown date â Lin Yining (æ以寧), Chinese poet (died c. 1730)
Deaths
- February 25 â Daniel Heinsius, Dutch poet (born 1580)[4]
- May 8 â Edward Winslow, English theologian, pamphleteer and New England politician (born 1595)
- July 28 â Cyrano de Bergerac, French dramatist (born 1619)[5]
- September 7 â François Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist (born c. 1601)[6]
- October 24 â Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher (born 1592)[7]
- probable â John Reynolds, English poet, story-writer and pamphleteer (born c. 1588)