1641 in literature

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The year 1641 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

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 (nominal author, really by Gabriel Plattes) - 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)
Gabriel Plattes - A Description of the Famous Kingdome of Macaria
Sir Henry Spelman - De Sepultura
John Taylor - John Taylors Last Voyage and Adventure
Nicolaes Tulp - Observationes Medicae
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)