1641 in literature

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The year 1641 in literature involved some significant events.

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Pierre Corneille marries Marie de Lampérière.
Sir William Davenant is convicted of high treason.
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon becomes an advisor to King Charles I of England.
Abraham Cowley's play The Guardian is acted before Prince Charles (later to be King Charles II) at Trinity College, Cambridge on March 12.

George Abbot - Vindiciae Sabbathi
Moses Amyraut - De l'elevation de la foy et de l'abaissement de la raison en la creance des mysteres de la religion
Richard Baker - Apologie for Laymen's Writing in Divinity, with a Short Meditation upon the Fall of Lucifer
Sir Edward Coke - The Complete Copyholder
Luís Vélez de Guevara - El Diablo cojuelo
William Habington - Observations upon History
Joseph Hall - Episcopacy by Divine Right
Samuel Hartlib - A Description of the Famous Kingdom of Macaria
Thomas Heywood - The Life of Merlin surnamed Ambrosius
Thomas Hobbes - De Cive
Sir Francis Kynaston - Leoline and Sydanis
John Milton - Of Reformation
Sir Robert Naunton - Fragmenta Regalia, or Observations on the late Queen Elizabeth, her Times and Favourites (posthumously published)
Sir Henry Spelman - De Sepultura
John Taylor - John Taylors Last Voyage and Adventure
John Wilkins - Mercury, or The Secret and Swift Messenger

April 15 - Sir Robert Sibbald, historian (died 1722)
March - Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, politician and writer (died 1711)
May 10 - Sir Dudley North, economist (died 1691)
May - Juan Núñez de la Peña, historian (died 1721)
October - Henry Dodwell, theologian (died 1711)
date unknown - Pierre Allix, Protestant author (died 1717)
date unknown - Thomas Rymer, historian (died 1713)
probable - William Sherlock, theologian (died 1707)

January 11
- Franciscus Gomarus, theologian (born 1563)
- Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, poet (born 1583)
April 13 - Richard Montagu, theologian (born 1577)
August 9 - Augustine Baker, religious writer (born 1575)
August - Sir William Vaughan (writer), general author (born 1575)
date unknown - Arthur Johnston, poet (born 1587)
date unknown - Gerard de Malynes, merchant and author (born 1586)