1655 in literature

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The year 1655 in literature involved some significant events.

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Jeremy Taylor is imprisoned for four months at Chepstow Castle.
Thomas Stanley begins his History of Philosophy.
The Blackfriars Theatre is demolished on August 6.
On October 29, 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.

John Bramhall - Defense of True Liberty; Bramhall, an Anglican divine, begins a correspondence of treatises with Thomas Hobbes
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle - The World's Olio
Thomas Fuller - The Church History of Britain
John Heydon - Eugenius Theodidacticus
William Prynne - A New Discovery of Free-State Tyranny
Sir William Sales - Theophania
John Wallis - Elenchus geomeiriae Hobbianae, an attack on the work of Thomas Hobbes
Izaak Walton - The Compleat Angler, second edition