1653 in literature

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The year 1653 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

Richard Brome - Five New Plays, a collection of his dramas including A Mad Couple Well-Match'd, The Novella, The Court Beggar, The City Wit, and The Damoiselle
Margaret Cavendish - Poems and Fancies
Ann Collins - Divine Songs and Meditations
Sir Percy Herbert - The Princess Cloria, Parts 1 and 2
Edward Johnson - A History of New England
Blaise Pascal - Traité du triangle arithmétique
James Shirley - Six New Plays, a collection of his drama including The Brothers, The Sisters, The Doubtful Heir, The Imposture, The Cardinal, and The Court Secret.
Jeremy Taylor - Twenty-five Sermons
Sir Thomas Urquhart - the first English translation of Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel, Books I and II
Izaak Walton -The Compleat Angler
Arthur Wilson - The History of Great Britain, being the Life and Reign of King James I.

Anonymous - The Ghost, or the Woman Wears the Breeches published
John Ford (attributed to) - The Queen published
William Heminges - The Fatal Contract published
Henry Killigrew - Pallantus and Eudora published (Killigrew's revision of his own The Conspiracy, 1638)
Philippe Quinault - Les Rivales
Paul Scarron - Don Japhel d'Arménie