1630 in literature
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The year 1630 in literature involved some significant literary events and new books.
Events
- April 10 - English literature, drama, and education lose a major patron and benefactor when William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke and Lord Chamberlain of England, dies[1] at Baynard's Castle in London.
- June - Scottish-born Presbyterian Alexander Leighton is brought before Archbishop William Laud's Star Chamber court in England for publishing the seditious pamphlet An Appeale to the Parliament, or, Sions Plea Against the Prelacy (printed in the Netherlands, 1628). He is sentenced to be pilloried and whipped, have his ears cropped, one side of his nose slit, and his face branded with "SS" (for "sower of sedition"), to be imprisoned, and be degraded from holy orders.[2]
New books
- Johann Heinrich Alsted - Encyclopaedia
- Thomas Dekker - London Look Back
- Thomas Randolph - Aristippus, or The Jovial Philosopher and The Conceited Pedlar (in one volume)
New drama
- Anonymous - Pathomachia (published)
- John Clavell - The Soddered Citizen
- Sir William Davenant - The Cruel Brother and The Just Italian (published)
- Lope de Vega - El amor enamorado
- Thomas Dekker - The Honest Whore, Part 2 (published)
- Philip Massinger - The Picture and The Renegado (published)
- Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza - Cada loco con su tema o el montañés indiano
- Thomas Middleton - A Chaste Maid in Cheapside (published)
- Thomas Randolph
- Aristippus
- Amyntas, or the Impossible Dowry
Poetry
- Lope de Vega - El laurel de Apolo
- Diana Primrose - A Chaine of Pearle; or a memoriall of the peerless graces, and heroick vertues of Queene Elizabeth
- John Taylor - All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet
Births
- January 19 - Noel Alexandre, theologian (died 1724)
- February 28 - Matthias Tanner, theologian (died 1692)
- September 13 - Olaus Rudbeck, scientist and author (died 1702)
- October - Isaac Barrow, theologian and mathematician (died 1677)
- November 24 - Étienne Baluze, general author (died 1718)
- December 17 - Kaibara Ekken, philosopher (died 1714)
- date unknown - Thomas Tanner, clergyman and writer (died 1682)
Deaths
- February 5 - Michael Rabbet, English Bible translator (born c.1562)
- March 16 - Sylvester Norris, English priest and controversialist (born c.1570)
- April 29 - Agrippa d'Aubigné, Protestant poet and dramatist (born 1552)
- August 11 - Thomas Walsingham, literary patron (born c. 1561)
- October 10 - John Heminges, actor and co-editor of the First Folio (born c. 1556)
- November 5 - Charles Malapert, Jesuit writer (born 1581)[3]
- December 30 - Matthias Martinius, Calvinist theologian (born 1572)
- date unknown
- Gabriel Harvey, poet and author (born c. 1545)
- Samuel Rowlands, pamphleteer (born c.1573)
References
- ^ National Portrait Gallery: William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke (1580-1630), Lord Chamberlain. Accessed 1 February 2013
- ^ Condick, Frances (2004). "Leighton, Alexander (c.1570–1649)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/16395. Retrieved 2013-03-20. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- ^ François De Vriendt, Charles Malapert (1581-1630) (French). Accessed 1 February 2013