1631 in literature

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The year 1631 in literature involved some significant literary events and new books.

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January 9 - Love's Triumph Through Callipolis, a masque written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones, is staged at Whitehall Palace.
January 11 - The Master of the Revels refuses to license Philip Massinger's new play, Believe as You List, because of its seditious content.
February 22 - Chloridia, the year's second Jonson/Jones masque, is performed.
June 10 - The King's Men perform Pericles, Prince of Tyre at the Globe Theatre.
The young Blaise Pascal moves with his family to Paris.^[1]
Thomas Hobbes is employed as a tutor by the Cavendish family, to teach the future Earl of Devonshire.^[2]
Roger Williams arrives in Boston, Mass.

Johann Philipp Abelin - Arma Suecica, volume 1
Moses Amyraut - Traité des religions
Collected works of Jacobus Arminius published posthumously in Frankfurt
Robert Fludd - Medicina Catholica (Volume 2)
Thomas Harriot - Artis analyticae praxis
James Mabbe - Celestina, or the Tragicomedy of Calisto and Melibea, a 300-page closet drama or "novel in dialogue," translated from the Spanish-language original of Fernando de Rojas
Wicked Bible, a reprint of the King James Bible notable for typographical errors
William Oughtred - Clavis mathematicae

Anonymous - Fair Em published
George Chapman - Caesar and Pompey published
Henry Chettle - Hoffman published
Thomas Goffe - The Raging Turk published
Peter Hausted - Senile Odium
Thomas Heywood - The Fair Maid of the West, Parts 1 and 2 published
Ben Jonson
- Chloridia (masque)
- Love's Triumph Through Callipolis (masque)
Ralph Knevet - Rhodon and Iris (masque)
James Mabbe - The Spanish Bawd published
Jean Mairet - La Silvanire, ou la Morte-vive
Shackerley Marmion - Holland's Leaguer runs for a highly-unusual six straight performances
John Marston, with William Barkstead & Lewis Machin (?) - The Insatiate Countess published
Philip Massinger
- Believe as You List
- The Emperor of the East
Thomas May - Antigone, the Theban Princess published
Jean Rotrou - L'Hypocondriaque
James Shirley
- The Traitor
- Love's Cruelty
- The Humorous Courtier
- Love Tricks published as The School of Compliment
Aurelian Townshend - Albion's Triumph (masque)
Robert Ward (?) - Fucus Histriomastix
Arthur Wilson - The Swisser
Richard Zouche - The Sophister

January 1 - Katharine Philips, poet, "Orinda" (died 1664)
March 6 - René Le Bossu, critic (died 1680)
August 9 - John Dryden, poet and dramatist (died 1700)
date unknown
- Richard Cumberland, philosopher (died 1718)
- John Phillips, satirist and nephew of John Milton (died 1706)
- Michael Wigglesworth, poet (died 1705)

March 31 - John Donne, poet (born 1572)
May - Samuel Harsnett, religious writer (born 1561)
May 6 - Robert Bruce Cotton, founder of the Cotton Library (born 1570)
July - Enrico Caterino Davila, historian (born 1576)
July 28 - Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, dramatist (born 1569)
September 22 - Cardinal Federico Borromeo, archbishop of Milan, founder of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana (born 1564)
November 29 - Edmond Richer, theologian (born 1559)
December 23 - Michael Drayton, poet (born 1563)