1658 in literature

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The year 1658 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

Molière arrives in Paris to act at the Louvre Palace. He performs with his troupe in front of King Louis XIV of France in Pierre Corneille's tragedy Nicomède and in his own farce Le Docteur Amoureux ("The Doctor in Love").
Edward Phillips continues the Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Romans' Government unto the Death of King James (originally by Richard Baker) to this date.

Thomas Browne
- The Garden of Cyrus
- Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial
John Gadbury - Genethlialogia, or the Doctrine of Nativities
Pierre Gassendi - Syntagma philosophicum (published posthumously)
Christiaan Huygens - Horologium
Edward Phillips
- Mysteries of Love and Eloquence
- A New World in Words, or a General Dictionary
Giambattista della Porta - Natural Magic

Sir William Davenant - The Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru
William Chamberlaine - Love's Victory (published)
Sir Aston Cockayne - The Obstinate Lady & Trappolin Suppos'd a Prince (published in one volume)
Sir William Davenant - The Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru (published)
Thomas Dekker, John Ford, & William Rowley - The Witch of Edmonton (published)
Sir William Lower
- The Amorous Fantasm (adapted from Philippe Quinault's Fantome Amoreux; published)
- The Enchanted Lovers (published)
Thomas May - The Old Couple (published)
Jasper Mayne
- The City Match (published)
- The Amorous War (published)
Thomas Meriton
- Love and War(published)
- The Wandering Lover(published)
Gilbert Swinhoe - Unhappy Fair Irene (published)
Leonard Willan - Orgula, or the Fatal Error (published)

February 3 - Katherine Woodcock, second wife of John Milton
April 29 - John Cleveland, poet (born 1613)
November 6 - Pierre du Ryer, dramatist (born 1606)
November 15 - Jacobus Revius, Dutch poet, Calvinist theologian and church historian (born 1586)
date unknown - Pedro de Torres Rámila, Spanish poet, satirist and Renaissance humanist (born 1583)

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