1637 in literature

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The year 1637 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

January - Pierre Corneille's tragicomedy Le Cid first performed at the Théâtre du Marais in Paris. Based on Guillén de Castro's play Las mocedades del Cid (1618), it is first published later in the year and sparks the debate of the Querelle du Cid at the Académie française over its failure to observe all the classical unities of drama and supposed lack of moral purpose, but proves popular with audiences.^[1]
January 24 - Hamlet is performed before King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria at Hampton Court Palace.
October 2 - The London theatres re-open, having been closed almost continuously since May 1636 because of a severe outbreak of bubonic plague.
The King's Men mount a production for the English Court of William Cartwright's The Royal Slave, a play that was first staged at Christ Church, Oxford the previous year. The company is paid an extra £30 "for their pains in studying and acting" the drama.
Thomas Browne settles in Norwich as a physician.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca - El Tetrarca published
Pierre Corneille - Le Cid
John Fletcher and Philip Massinger - The Elder Brother published
François Tristan l'Hermite - Penthée
Thomas Heywood - The Royal King and the Loyal Subject published
John Milton - Comus (masque) published
Thomas Nabbes - Microcosmus, a Moral Masque
Thomas Neale - The Warde
Joseph Rutter - The Cid, Part 1 published
James Shirley - five plays published in five single-play quartos: The Example, The Gamester, Hyde Park, The Lady of Pleasure, and The Young Admiral
Sir John Suckling - Aglaura
Joost van den Vondel - Gijsbrecht van Aemstel written
George Wilde - The Converted Robber

William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling - Recreations of the Muses
James Day - A New Spring of Divine Poetry
Thomas Jordan - Poetical Varieties
Shackerley Marmion - Cupid and Psyche, a 2000-line translation and adaptation of The Golden Ass of Apuleius

February - Gervase Markham, English poet (born c.1568)
February 24 - Dominicus Arumaeus, Dutch legal writer (born 1579)
March 19 - Péter Pázmány, Hungarian philosopher and theologian (born 1570)
May 19 - Isaac Beeckman, Dutch philosopher and diarist (born 1588)
August 6 - Ben Jonson, English poet and dramatist (born c.1572)
August 10
- Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran theologian (born 1582)
- Edward King, Anglo-Irish poet (born 1612)
October 5 - Daniel Cramer, German Lutheran theologian and dramatist (born 1568)

↑ Howarth, William D., ed. (1997). French Theatre in the Neo-classical Era, 1550–1789. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521100878.

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