1628 in literature

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The year 1628 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

July 29 (Tuesday) - The King's Men perform Henry VIII at the Globe Theatre. George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham is in the audience, but leaves after watching the play's Duke of Buckingham beheaded. (Villiers is assassinated less than a month later.)
Ten-year-old Abraham Cowley produces his Tragicall History of Piramus and Thisbe.

Robert Arnauld d'Andilly - Stances pour Jésus-Christ
John Clavell - A Recantation of an Ill Led Life
Sir John Coke - The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England, or, a Commentary upon Littleton
René Descartes - Rules for the Direction of the Mind
Thomas Dekker - Wars, Wars, Wars
John Earle, Bishop of Salisbury - Microcosmographie
Nicolas des Escuteaux - Les jaloux desdains de Chrysis
Thomas Hobbes - translation of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War
Samuel Przypkowski - Dissertatio de pace
George Wither - Britain's Remembrancer

January 12 – Charles Perrault, French fairytale author (died 1703)
November 28 – John Bunyan, English religious writer (died 1703)
Unknown date – Abu Salim al-Ayyashi, Moroccan travel writer, poet and scholar (died 1679)

February – Christopher Brooke, English poet, lawyer and politician (date of birth unknown)
March 23 – Robert Daborne, English dramatist (born c. 1580)
October 16 – François de Malherbe, French poet and critic (born 1555)
Unknown dates
- Edward Allde, English printer (date of birth unknown)
- Christopher Middleton, English poet and translator (born c. 1560)
- Richard Whitbourne, Newfoundland colonist and writer (born 1579)
Probable year of death – Nicolas des Escuteaux, French novelist (born c. 1570)