1632 in literature

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The year 1632 in literature involved some significant events.

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May - Tirso de Molina is appointed chronicler of the Order of Mercy.
Death of Marta de Nevares, mistress of Lope de Vega.
King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria visit Cambridge University in March. The students of Trinity College perform Randolph's The Jealous Lovers and Hausted's The Rival Friends, the latter causing a theatrical riot and subsequent scandal.

Phineas Fletcher - The Way to Blessedness and Joy in Tribulation
Galileo Galilei - Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo (Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems)
John Lyly - Six Court Comedies (published posthumously by Edward Blount), containing Campaspe, Endymion, Gallathea, Midas, Mother Bombie, and Sapho and Phao
Juan Pérez de Montalbán - Para todos
Henry Reynolds - Mythomystes
William Shakespeare - the Second Folio of the plays

Anonymous - The Costly Whore
William Alabaster - Roxana (Latin play, first performed during the 1590s) published
Richard Brome - The Weeding of Covent Garden performed
- The Northern Lass published
Nathan Field & Philip Massinger - The Fatal Dowry published
Thomas Goffe - The Courageous Turk published
Robert Gomersal - Lodovick Sforza, Duke of Milan published
Peter Hausted - The Rival Friends
Thomas Heywood - The Iron Age, Part 1 and 2 published
Ben Jonson - The Magnetic Lady
Jean Mairet - Les Galanteries du duc d'Ossonne
Philip Massinger - The City Madam performed
- The Maid of Honour published
Thomas Randolph -The Jealous Lovers
- The Muses' Looking-Glass
William Rowley (and others?) - A New Wonder, a Woman Never Vexed published
James Shirley - The Ball
- The Changes, or Love in a Maze
- Hyde Park
John Tatham - Love Crowns the End
Aurelian Townshend - Tempe Restored (masque)

January 29 - Johann Georg Graevius, classical scholar (died 1730)
June 10 - Esprit Fléchier, historian (died 1710)
August 29 - John Locke, philosopher (died 1704)
November 23 - Jean Mabillon, palaeographer (died 1707)
November 24 - Baruch Spinoza, philosopher (died 1677)
December 17 - Anthony Wood, antiquarian writer (died 1695)
date unknown - Lancelot Addison, general author and father of Joseph Addison (died 1703)

February 23 - Giambattista Basile, poet and collector of fairy tales (born c.1570)
August 25 - Thomas Dekker, dramatist (born c.1572)
date unknown - Alexandre Hardy, dramatist (born c.1571)
date unknown - Luís de Sousa, religious writer (born 1555)