1637 in literature
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The year 1637 in literature involved some significant events.
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[edit] Events
- Hamlet is performed before King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria at Hampton Court Palace on January 24.
- On October 2, the London theatres re-open; they had been closed almost continuously since May 1636, due to a severe outbreak of bubonic plague.
- The King's Men mount a production for the Court of William Cartwright's The Royal Slave, a play that was first staged at Christ Church, Oxford the previous year. The company is paid an extra £30 "for their pains in studying and acting" the drama.
[edit] New books
- René Descartes - Discours de la Méthode
- Thomas Heywood - Pleasant Dialogues and Dramas
- Marin Mersenne - Universal Harmony
- María de Zayas y Sotomayor - Novelas amorosas y ejemplares
- Five plays by James Shirley are published in individual editions - The Example, The Gamester, Hyde Park, The Lady of Pleasure, and The Young Admiral
[edit] New drama
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca - El Tetrarca published
- John Fletcher and Philip Massinger - The Elder Brother published.
- François Tristan l'Hermite - Penthée
- Thomas Heywood - The Royal King and the Loyal Subject published
- John Milton - Comus (masque) published
- Thomas Nabbes - Microcosmus, a Moral Masque
- Thomas Neale - The Warde
- Joseph Rutter - The Cid, Part 1 published
- James Shirley - five plays published in five single-play quartos: The Example, The Gamester, Hyde Park, The Lady of Pleasure, and The Young Admiral
- Sir John Suckling - Aglaura
- George Wilde - The Converted Robber
[edit] Poetry
- William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling - Recreations of the Muses
- James Day - A New Spring of Divine Poetry
- Thomas Jordan - Poetical Varieties
- Shackerley Marmion - Cupid and Psyche, a 2000-line translation and adaptation of The Golden Ass of Apuleius
[edit] Births
- December 24 - Pierre Jurieu, Protestant theologian (died 1713)
- December 30 - William Cave, theologian (died 1713)
- date unknown - Zeb-un-Nisa, Sufi poet (died 1702)
- probable - Robert Ferguson, pamphleteer (died 1714)
[edit] Deaths
- February - Gervase Markham, poet (born c.1568)
- February 24 - Dominicus Arumaeus, Dutch legal writer (born 1579)
- March 19 - Péter Pázmány, Hungarian philosopher and theologian (born 1570)
- May 19 - Isaac Beeckman, philosopher and diarist (born 1588)
- August 6 - Ben Jonson, poet and dramatist (born c.1572)
- August 10 - Johann Gerhard, Lutheran theologian (born 1582)
- October 5 - Daniel Cramer, Lutheran theologian and dramatist (born 1568)
