1659 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1659.
Events
- January 27 â The poet Andrew Marvell is elected a member of Parliament for Kingston upon Hull in England's Third Protectorate Parliament.
- August â William Davenant is briefly imprisoned for his part in George Booth's Cheshire uprising in favor of restoring the English Monarchy.
- unknown dates
- Méric Casaubon edits John Dee's journal of angel magic.
- The Icelandic pastor Jón Magnússon completes his PÃslarsaga (Passion Saga, or Story of My Sufferings).
New books
Prose
- Richard Baxter â The Holy Commonwealth
- Méric Casaubon (ed.) â A True & Faithful Relation of What passed for many Yeers between Dr. John Dee (A Mathematician of Great Fame in Q. Eliz. and King James their Reignes) and some spirits
- Thomas Hobbes â De Homine
- Christiaan Huygens â Systema Saturnium
- Ninon de l'Enclos â La Coquette vengée (The Flirt Avenged)
- Richard Lovelace â Lucasta (posthumous)
- William Prynne â Parliamentary Writs (further parts in 1660, 1662 and 1664)
- Johann Heinrich Rahn â Teutsche Algebra
- Péter Révay â De monarchia et sacra corona regni hungariae centuriae septem
- John Rushworth â Historical Collections of Private Passages of State... (also The Rushworth Papers)
- Anna Maria van Schurman â The Learned Maid, or Whether a Maid May Be a Scholar? (English version of 1638 Latin original)
- Jeremy Taylor â Discourse on the Nature, Offices and Measures of Friendship
Drama
- Anonymous â The London Chanticleers[1]
- Richard Brome â Five New Plays, including The English Moor, The Lovesick Court, The Weeding of Covent Garden, The New Academy, and The Queen and Concubine
- Joan Leonardsz Blasius â De Edelmoedige Vijanden
- Sir William Davenant â The History of Sir Francis Drake
- John Day and Henry Chettle â The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green (published six decades after its premiere)
- Juan Bautista Diamante â El honrador de su padre
- Richard Flecknoe â The Marriage of Oceanus and Britannia
- Molière â Les Précieuses ridicules
- Walter Montague â The Shepherd's Paradise[2]
- AgustÃn Moreto â No puede ser...
- James Shirley
- Joost van den Vondel â Jephta
Poetry
- William Chamberlayne â Pharonnida: A heroick poem
- Luis de Ulloa Pereira â Versos
Births
- January 1 â Humphrey Hody, English theologian and archdeacon (died 1707)
- March â Margrethe Lasson, Danish novelist (died 1738)
- March 25 â John Asgill, English pamphleteer (died 1738)
- March 26 â William Wollaston, English philosopher, classicist and cleric (died 1724)
- April 29 â Sophia Elisabet Brenner, Swedish poet and writer (died 1730)[3]
- unknown dates
- Thomas Creech, English classicist and translator (died 1700)
- Kata Szidónia PetrÅczy, Hungarian poet (died 1708)
Deaths
- January 7 â Laurenz Forer, Swiss theologian and controversialist writing in Latin and German (born 1580)
- January 31 â János Apáczai Csere, Hungarian linguist, mathematician and encyclopedist (born 1625)
- February 4 â Francis Osborne, English essayist (born 1593)
- April 15 â Simon Dach, German poet and hymnist (born 1605)
- June 3 â Morgan Llwyd, Welsh preacher, poet and writer (born 1619)[4]
- September 22 â Thomas Morton, English polemicist and bishop (born 1564)
- October 27 â Giovanni Francesco Busenello, Italian poet and librettist (born 1598)