1653 in literature
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The year 1653 in literature involved some significant literary events and new works.
Events
- March 26 - James Shirley's masque Cupid and Death is performed before the Portuguese ambassador in London.[1]
- Pierre Corneille retires from the theatre for six years.
- John Evelyn buys Sayes Court, Deptford.
- Robert Cox of the Red Bull Theatre is arrested for performing a "play".
New books
- 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
- 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
- first English translation of Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel, Books I and II
- Logopandecteision
- Izaak Walton -The Compleat Angler
- Arthur Wilson - The History of Great Britain, being the Life and Reign of King James I.
- Baltasar Gracián - El criticón (second part)
- Juan de Zabaleta - Errores celebrados
- Blaise Pascal - Traité du triangle arithmétique
New drama
- 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
- Lope de Vega - La discreta enamorada
- Agustín Moreto - El lindo don Diego
- Paul Scarron - Don Japhel d'Arménie
Births
- January 13 – Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (died 1705)
- March 8 – Goodwin Wharton, English autobiographer and politician (died 1704)
- Unknown date – Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese dramatist (died 1725)
- Probable year of birth
- Nathaniel Lee, English dramatist (died 1692)
- Matthew Tindal, English deist writer (died 1733)
Deaths
- May 26 – Robert Filmer, English political theorist (born 1558)
- July 10 – Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (born 1600)
- September 3 – Claudius Salmasius, French classical scholar (born 1588)
- September 23 – Jacques Goar, French Hellenist (born 1601)
- Unknown dates
- Zachary Boyd, Scottish poet (born 1585)
- Piaras Feiritéar, Irish-language poet and rebel (hanged, born c. 1600)
- John Taylor, English poet (born 1578)