1629 in literature
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The year 1629 in literature involved some significant events.
Events
- April 6 - Tommaso Campanella is released from custody in Rome, and gains the confidence of Pope Urban IV.
- July - Richard James lends Oliver St John a manuscript tract on the bridling of parliaments which was written in 1612 by Sir Robert Dudley, titular duke of Northumberland. St John circulates it among parliamentary supporters, and James is arrested as a result.
- November 22 - The King's Men perform Othello at the Blackfriars Theatre.
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca and his friends break into a convent in an attempt to seize Pedro de Villegas, who had stabbed Calderón's brother.
- First recorded performance given at the Corral de comedias de Almagro in Spain (rediscovered in the 1950s) by Juan Martinez's theatrical company Autor.[1]
- Inigo Jones redesigns the Cockpit-in-Court in London as a venue for staging court masques.
- Pierre Corneille brings his first play, Mélite to a group of travelling actors.
- In Japan, women's kabuki dance-drama is prohibited, and young men take over female roles.
New books
- Balthazar Baro - Célinde, poème héroïque (a prose work containing a poem at its core)
- Philipp Clüver - Introductio in Universam Geographiam ("Introduction to Universal Geography") (posthumous)
- John Amos Comenius - Janua linguarum reserata
- Arthur Dee - Fasciculus Chemicus
- Robert Fludd - Medicina Catholica (Volume 1)
- Paul Laymann - Processus juridicus contra sagas et vene fico (attributed)
- Richard Sibbes - The Saint's Cordial
New drama
- Richard Brome
- The Northern Lass
- A Lovesick Maid (lost)
- Lodowick Carlell - The Deserving Favourite (published)
- William D'Avenant
- The Just Italian (performed)
- The Tragedy of Albovine (published)
- Ben Jonson - The New Inn
- Philip Massinger
- The Picture (performed)
- The Roman Actor (published)
- James Shirley - The Grateful Servant
Poetry
Main article: 1629 in poetry
- John Beaumont - Bosworth Field; with a taste of the variety of other Poems left by Sir John Beaumont
- John Taylor - Wit and Mirth
Births
- January 2 - Christian Scriver, Lutheran devotional writer (died 1693)
- April 14 - Christiaan Huygens, polymath (died 1695)
- August 18 - Agneta Horn, Swedish memoirist (died 1672)
- August 20 - Matthew Wren, politician and writer (died 1672)
- date unknown
- Henry Muddiman, journalist and publisher (died 1692)
- Roderick O'Flaherty, historian (died c. 1717)
Deaths
- July 13 - Caspar Bartholin the Elder, theologian (born 1585)
- August - Thomas James, librarian (born c. 1573)
- August 18 - Vendela Skytte, poet (born 1608)
- November - Robert Hayman, poet (born 1574)
- date unknown
- Thomas Goffe, dramatist (born 1591)
- John Speed, historian and cartographer (born 1542)
References
- ↑ Shakespeare and the Mediterranean: The Selected Proceedings of the International Shakespeare Association World Congress, Valencia, 2001. University of Delaware Press. 2004. pp. 92–96. ISBN 978-0-87413-816-0.
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