1634 in literature

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The year 1634 in literature involved some significant events.

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January 1 - The King's Men perform Cymbeline at the court of King Charles I of England.
January 22 - The King's Men perform Davenant's The Wits at the Blackfriars Theatre.
February 3 - James Shirley's spectacular masque The Triumph of Peace is staged in London. A repeat performance takes place on February 13.
February 6 - Shirley's play The Gamester is performed at court.
February 18 - Thomas Carew's masque Coelum Britannicum is staged at Whitehall Palace.
April 7 - The King's Men perform Chapman's Bussy D'Ambois at court.
April 8 - The Two Noble Kinsmen is entered into the Stationers' Register; it is published later in the year.
May 1 - Lodowick Carlell's play The Spartan Lady (now lost) is performed.
May 21 - A play called Lisander and Callista is performed — probably a version of the Fletcher/Massinger collaboration The Lovers' Progress.
July 30 - Ben Jonson's final masque, Love's Welcome at Bolsover, is performed at Bolsover Castle.
The Académie française is founded by Cardinal Richelieu.
The Duke de Medinaceli forces Francisco de Quevedo into a short-lived marriage with Doña Esperanza de Aragón.

Juan Ruiz de Alarcón - La verdad sospechosa (published)
Richard Brome & Thomas Heywood - The Late Lancashire Witches
William Davenant - The Wits
- - Love and Honour, also known as The Courage of Love
- - The Temple of Love (masque)
John Ford (& Thomas Dekker?) - Perkin Warbeck published
Thomas Heywood - A Maidenhead Well Lost published
Ben Jonson - Love's Welcome at Bolsover
John Milton - Comus (masque)
Thomas Nabbes - Tottenham Court
James Shirley - The Example
- - The Opportunity
- - The Triumph of Peace (masque)

Richard Crashaw - Epigrammatum sacrorum liber ("A Book of Sacred Epigrams," in Latin)
William Habington - Castara (published anonymously)
Johann von Rist - Musa Teutonica