1636 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1636.

Events

January 31 – The King's Men perform Shakespeare's Julius Caesar at St James's Palace, London.^[1]
February – James Shirley's tragicomedy The Duke's Mistress is performed at St James's Palace.^[1]
March 3 – A "great charter" to the University of Oxford establishes the Oxford University Press as the second of England's privileged presses.^[2]
April – Thomas Hobbes travels from Rome to Florence.^[3]
May 10 – London theatres close, and remain almost continuously closed until the end of the year (and on to October 1637), due to an outbreak of bubonic plague. Playing companies are profoundly impacted; the King's Revels Men dissolve and other companies tour the countryside to survive.^[1]
June – Tommaso Campanella, having left Italy for France, because of his pro-French views, gives a speech in front of Cardinal Richelieu; he teaches at the Sorbonne.^[4]
August – King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria visit the University of Oxford. They are entertained with college theatricals, including William Strode's allegory The Floating Island (with music by Henry Lawes), which mocks William Prynne as the play-hating Melancholico; George Wilde's Love's Hospital; and William Cartwright's The Royal Slave (also with Lawes' music and design by Inigo Jones). Henrietta Maria enjoys the last so much that she brings it to be performed at Hampton Court by her Queen Henrietta's Men.^[1]
November – Compilation of the Irish language Annals of the Four Masters is completed by Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, assisted by Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh, Fearfeasa Ó Maol Chonaire and Peregrine Ó Duibhgeannain, in the Franciscan friary in Donegal Town in Ireland, under the patronage of Fearghal Ó Gadhra.^[5]
December 8 – The King's Men perform Shakespeare's Othello at Hampton Court Palace.^[1]

New books

Athanasius Kircher – First grammar of the Coptic language
Sir Henry Blount – A Voyage to the Levant^[6]
Juan Pérez de Montalbán – Fama póstuma a la vida y muerte de Lope de Vega Carpio
Salvador Jacinto Polo de Medina – Hospital de incurables y Viaje de este mundo y el otro
Cristóbal de Salazar Mardones – Ilustración y defensa de la Fábula de Píramo y Tisbe
José García de Salcedo Coronel – Comentario a las Soledades de Góngora

New drama

Richard Brome – The New Academy
Lodowick Carlell – Arviragus and Philicia
William Cartwright – The Royal Slave
John Cayworth – Enchiridion Christiados (masque)
Pierre Corneille – L'Illusion Comique, performed
Sir William Davenant – The Triumphs of the Prince D'Amour (masque), The Wits, and The Platonick Lovers published
Pierre Corneille – Le Cid
Henry Glapthorne – The Hollander and perhaps Wit in a Constable^[7]
François Tristan l'Hermite – La Mariane
Thomas Heywood – A Challenge for Beauty published
Thomas Killigrew – Claracilla
Philip Massinger – The Bashful Lover performed; The Great Duke of Florence published
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
- Casa con dos puertas mala es de guardar
- La dama duende
- La devoción de la cruz
- La vida es sueño
Parte XXX de comedias de varios autores
Tirso de Molina –
- La vida de Herodes
- Marta la piadosa
Thomas Nabbes – Microcosmus, a Moral Masque
Jean Rotrou – Les Deux Sosies
William Sampson – The Vow-Breaker, or The Fayre Maid of Clifton
James Shirley – The Duke's Mistress
William Strode – The Floating Island
George Wilde – Love's Hospital^[8]

New poetry

Abraham Cowley – Sylva (in the 2nd edition of his collection Poetical Blossoms)
William Sampson – Virtus post Funera vivit, or Honour Tryumphing over Death, being true Epitomes of Honorable, Noble, Learned, and Hospitable Personages

Births

April 7 – Gregório de Matos, Brazilian poet (died 1696)
November 1 – Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (died 1711)
November 11 – Yan Ruoqu (閻若璩), Chinese scholar and polymath (died 1704)
Unknown dates
- Joseph Glanvill, English philosopher and cleric (died 1680)
- James Janeway, English children's writer and Puritan minister (died 1674)
- Jean de Montigny, French poet and philosopher (died 1671)
Probable year of birth – Thomas Traherne, English poet and religious writer (died 1674)

Deaths

January 19 – Daniel Schwenter, German Orientalist, polymath, poet and librarian (born 1585)
February 4 – James Perrot, Welsh politician and philosophical writer (born 1571)
April 26 – Paul Hay du Chastelet, French orator and writer (born 1592
August 25 – Bhai Gurdas, Punjabi Sikh scholar (born 1551)
September 15 – Cuthbert Burbage, English theatre owner, associate of William Shakespeare (born 1566)
December 9 – Fabian Birkowski, Polish writer and preacher (born 1566)
Unknown dates
- Henning Arnisaeus, German political theorist and philosopher (born 1570)
- Johannes Messenius, Swedish dramatist and historian (born 1579)
- Cesare Rinaldi, Italian poet (born 1559)
- Wen Zhenmeng (文震孟), Chinese artist and author (born 1574)
Probable date
- Antonio Mira de Amescua, Spanish dramatist (born c. 1578)
- William Sampson, English dramatist (born c. 1590)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Chambers, E. K. The Elizabethan Stage. 4 Volumes, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1923.
^ "A Short History of Oxford University Press". Oxford University Press. 2012. Retrieved 2013-07-30.
^ Quentin Skinner; Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities Quentin Skinner (22 February 1996). Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes. Cambridge University Press. p. 254. ISBN 978-0-521-55436-7.
^ L'Erasmo: bimestrale della civiltà europea (in Italian). Fondazione Biblioteca di via Senato. 2000. p. 24.
^ Bernadette Cunningham (2010). The Annals of the Four Masters: Irish History, Kingship and Society in the Early Seventeenth Century. Four Courts Press. p. 70.
^ Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook. Accessed 1 February 2013
^ R. H. Shepherd, ed., The Plays and Poems of Henry Glapthorne: Now first collected with illustrative notes and a memoir of the Author, 2 volumes, London, J. Pearson, 1874.
^ John R. Elliott, Jr and John Buttrey (1985). The Royal Plays at Christ Church in 1636: A New Document. Theatre Research International, 10, pp. 93–106. doi:10.1017/S0307883300010646.

[Chambers-1] Chambers, E. K. The Elizabethan Stage. 4 Volumes, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1923.

[2] "A Short History of Oxford University Press". Oxford University Press. 2012. Retrieved 2013-07-30.

[3] Quentin Skinner; Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities Quentin Skinner (22 February 1996). Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes. Cambridge University Press. p. 254. ISBN 978-0-521-55436-7.

[4] L'Erasmo: bimestrale della civiltà europea (in Italian). Fondazione Biblioteca di via Senato. 2000. p. 24.

[5] Bernadette Cunningham (2010). The Annals of the Four Masters: Irish History, Kingship and Society in the Early Seventeenth Century. Four Courts Press. p. 70.

[6] Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook. Accessed 1 February 2013

[7] R. H. Shepherd, ed., The Plays and Poems of Henry Glapthorne: Now first collected with illustrative notes and a memoir of the Author, 2 volumes, London, J. Pearson, 1874.

[8] John R. Elliott, Jr and John Buttrey (1985). The Royal Plays at Christ Church in 1636: A New Document. Theatre Research International, 10, pp. 93–106. doi:10.1017/S0307883300010646.

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