1628 in literature

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The year 1628 in literature involved some significant events.

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Ben Jonson is appointed city chronologer of London.
Ten-year-old Abraham Cowley produces his Tragicall History of Piramus and Thisbe.
On Tuesday, July 29, the King's Men perform Henry VIII at the Globe Theatre. George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham is in the audience, but leaves after watching the play's Duke of Buckingham beheaded. (Villiers is assassinated less than a month later.)

John Clavell - A Recantation of an Ill Led Life
Sir John Coke - The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England, or, a Commentary upon Littleton
René Descartes - Rules for the Direction of the Mind
Thomas Dekker - Wars, Wars, Wars
John Earle, Bishop of Salisbury - Microcosmographie
Nicolas des Escuteaux - Les jaloux desdains de Chrysis
Thomas Hobbes - translation of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War
Samuel Przypkowski - Dissertatio de pace
George Wither - Britain's Remembrancer

January 12 - Charles Perrault, fairytale author (died 1703)
November 28 - John Bunyan, Christian apologist (died 1688)
date unknown - Abu Salim al-Ayyashi, travel writer, poet and scholar (died 1679)

March 23 - Robert Daborne, dramatist (born c.1580)
October 16 - François de Malherbe, poet and critic (born 1555)
date unknown
- Christopher Brooke, lawyer, politician and poet
- Christopher Middleton, poet and translator (born c.1560)