1657 in literature
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The year 1657 in literature involved some significant events.
Events
- Prohibition of young male actors in Japan.
- Madame de la Fayette becomes friends with Madame de Sévigné.
New books
- "William Allen" - Killing No Murder (variously attributed to Colonel Silius Titus, Edward Sexby or William Allen; Sexby admits authorship under duress)
- Cave Beck - The Universal Character
- Richard Kilburne - Typographie, a Brief Survey of the County of Kent
- Richard Ligon - A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes
- Jeremy Taylor - Discourse of the Nature, Offices and Measures of Friendship
- Brian Walton, Bishop of Chester - Polyglot Bible
- Baltasar Gracián - El criticón (third part)
- François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac - Pratique du théâtre
- Cyrano de Bergerac (posthumous) - L'Autre Monde: ou les États et Empires de la Lune ("Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon")
- Christiaan Huygens - De ratiociniis in ludo aleae
- Nihon Ōdai Ichiran
- Paul Scarron - Roman comique ("Comic romance"), publication concluded
New drama
- Anonymous - Lust's Dominion (published, falsely attributed in some impressions to Marlowe; probably by Dekker and others, written c.1600)
- Richard Brome - The Queen's Exchange (published)
- Sir Aston Cockayne - The Obstinate Lady (published)
- Lodowick Carlell
- The Fool Would be a Favorite, or The Discreet Lover (published)
- The Tragedy of Osmond the Great Turk, or the Noble Servant (published)
- George Gerbier d'Ouvilly - The False Favourite Disgraced, and the Reward of Loyalty (published)
- Franciscus van den Enden - Philedonius
- Andreas Gryphius - Katharina von Georgien
- Thomas Jordan - Fancy's Festivals (masque) (published)
- Thomas Middleton (died 1627)
- No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's (published)
- Two New Plays; first publication of Women Beware Women and More Dissemblers Besides Women
New poetry
- William Davenant - Poems on Several Occasions
- Salvador Jacinto Polo de Medina - Gobierno moral, a Lelio
- Earl of Rebolledo - La selva sagrada o rimas sacras
- Angelus Silesius - Heilige Seelenlust (collection of hymns)
Births
- February 11 – Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle French author (died 1757)
- November 26 – William Derham, English natural philosopher and cleric (died 1735)
Deaths
- March 7 – Hayashi Razan, Japanese philosopher (born 1583)
- August 29 – John Lilburne, English writer and agitator (born c. 1614)
- November 18 – Luke Wadding, Irish historian (born 1588)
- November 19 – Théodore Tronchin, Swiss theologian (born 1582)
- Unknown dates
- Richard Lovelace, English Cavalier poet (born 1617)
- Junije Palmotić, Ragusan dramatist and poet (born c. 1606)
- Thomas Tuke, English controversialist and cleric (born c. 1580)