1638 in literature

List of years in literature (Table)
	…; 1628; 1629; 1630; 1631; 1632; 1633; 1634; 1635; 1636; 1637; 1638; 1639; 1640; 1641; 1642; 1643; 1644; 1645; 1646; 1647; 1648; …;
Related time period or subjects
	…; 1635; 1636; 1637; 1638; 1639; 1640; 1641; …; …; 1600s; 1610s; 1620s; 1630s; 1640s; 1650s; 1660s; …; …; 16th century; 17th century; 18th century; …;
	Art Archaeology Architecture Literature Music Science more

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jump to: navigation, search

The year 1638 in literature involved some significant events.

[edit] Events

February 6 - Luminalia, a masque written by Sir William Davenant and designed by Inigo Jones, is staged at the English Court.
March 27 - the King's Men perform Chapman's tragedy Bussy D'Ambois at Court.
October 27 - the King's Men act Ben Jonson's Volpone at the Blackfriars Theatre.
Swiss engraver Matthäus Merian produces his illustrated view of London.

Méric Casaubon - A Treatise of Use and Custom
Johann Amos Comenius - Janua Linguarum Reserata, or a Seed-Plot of All Languages and Sciences
Sir Kenelm Digby - A Conference With a Lady About a Choice of Religion
Robert Fludd - Philosophia Moysaica
John Lilburne - A Work of the Beast
Philip Massinger - The Duke of Milan (second quarto)
Captain John Underhill - News from America, or a New and Experimental Discovery of New England
John Wilkins - The Discovery of a World in the Moon
Juan Rodriguez Freyle -El Carnero

Richard Brome - The Antipodes
Antonio Coello - El conde de Sex, o Dar la vida por su dama
Pierre Corneille - Le Cid (first English translation)
Abraham Cowley - Naufragium Joculare (in Latin)
William Davenant
- The Unfortunate Lovers
- The Fair Favorite
- Luminalia (masque)
- Brittania Triumphans (masque)
John Ford
- The Lady's Trial licensed
- The Fancies Chaste and Noble published
Thomas Heywood - The Wise Woman of Hogsdon published
William Johnson - Valetudinarium (in Latin)
Thomas Jordan (attributed) - The Wasp
Henry Killigrew – The Conspiracy published
John Kirke (?) or Wentworth Smith (?) - The Seven Champions of Christendom published
Tirso de Molina - Las Quinas de Portugal
Thomas Nabbes - The Bride
Thomas Randolph - Amyntas, or the Impossible Dowry published
William Rowley - A Shoemaker a Gentleman published
Pierre du Ryer - Alcione
Henry Shirley - The Martyr'd Soldier published
James Shirley
- The Royal Master performed and published
- The Duke's Mistress published
Sir John Suckling - The Goblins

John Barclay - The Mirror of Minds (posthumous)
Richard Braithwaite (alias "Corymbaeus") - Barnabee's Journal (In Latin and English versions)
Abraham Cowley - Love's Riddle
William Davenant - Madagascar, with other Poems
Francis Lenton - Great Britain's Beauties; or, The Female Glory Epitomized
Shackerley Marmion - A Funeral Sacrifice, to the Sacred Memory of his Thrice-Honored Father, Ben Jonson
John Milton - Lycidas