1628 in literature

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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Ben Jonson is appointed city chronologer of London.
• Ten-year-old Abraham Cowley produces his Tragicall History of Piramus and Thisbe.

[edit] New books

• René Descartes - Rules for the Direction of the Mind
• Thomas Dekker - Wars, Wars, Wars
• John Earle - Microcosmographie
• Robert Hayman - Quodlibets
• Thomas Hobbes - translation of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War
• George Wither - Britain's Remembrancer

[edit] New drama

• James Shirley - The Wittie Faire One

[edit] Births

• January 12 - Charles Perrault, fairytale author (died 1703)
• November 28 - John Bunyan, Christian apologist (died 1688)

[edit] Deaths

• October 16 - François de Malherbe, poet and critic (born 1555)