1634 in literature
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The year 1634 in literature involved some significant events.
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[edit] Events
- The King's Men perform Cymbeline at the English Court on January 1, and Chapman's Bussy D'Ambois there on April 7.
- Académie française founded by Cardinal Richelieu.
- The Two Noble Kinsmen is entered into the Stationers' Register on April 8, and published later in the year.
- The Duke de Medinaceli forces Francisco de Quevedo into a short-lived marriage with Doña Esperanza de Aragón.
[edit] New books
- Moses Amyraut - Traité de la predestination
- Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo - El Curioso y fabio Alexandro
- John Blaxton - The English Usurer
- William Haydon - The True Picture and Relation of Prince Henry...
- Thomas Herbert - Some Yeares Travels into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique
- Sir Thomas Muffet - Theatrum Insectorum
[edit] New drama
- Juan Ruiz de Alarcón - La verdad sospechosa (published)
- Richard Brome & Thomas Heywood - The Late Lancashire Witches
- William Davenant - The Wits
- - Love and Honour, also known as The Courage of Love
- - The Temple of Love (masque)
- John Ford (& Thomas Dekker?) - Perkin Warbeck published
- Thomas Heywood - A Maidenhead Well Lost published
- Ben Jonson - Love's Welcome at Bolsover
- John Milton - Comus (masque)
- Thomas Nabbes - Tottenham Court
- James Shirley - The Example
- - The Opportunity
- - The Triumph of Peace (masque)
[edit] Poetry
- Richard Crashaw - Epigrammatum sacrorum liber ("A Book of Sacred Epigrams," in Latin)
- William Habington - Castara (published anonymously)
[edit] Births
- March - Madame de la Fayette, novelist (died 1693)
- July 14 - Pasquier Quesnel, theologian (died 1719)
- December 15 - Thomas Hansen Kingo, poet (died 1703)
- date unknown - Pierre Thomas, memoirist (died 1698)
[edit] Deaths
- May 12 - George Chapman, dramatist, poet and translator Born c.1559
- June 25 - John Marston, dramatist (born 1576)
- date unknown - Randle Cotgrave, lexicographer (born 1587)
- probable - John Webster, dramatist (born c.1580)