1643 in literature

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The year 1643 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

• Having had his philosophy condemned by the University of Utrecht, René Descartes begins his long correspondence with Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia.
• The medieval Icelandic manuscript Codex Regius comes to light, in the possession of Brynjólfur Sveinsson.
• Miyamoto Musashi begins dictating The Book of Five Rings (Go Rin No Sho).
• Francis Bacon's New Atlantis and Tommaso Campanella's Civitas Solis, The City of the Sun, are published together in a volume titled Mundus Alter et Idem — the first time, though not the last, that the two works will be bound together.
• Parliament issues the Licensing Order of 1643 to control the press — the action John Milton protests in his Areopagitica of the following year.

New books

• Pedro Agerre - Gero
• Sir Thomas Browne - Religio Medici (the 1st "authorized" edition, after 2 unauthorized in the previous year)
• Sir Kenelm Digby - Observations Upon Religio Medici
• Philip Hunton - A Treatise of Monarchie
• John Milton - Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce
• Roger Williams - A Key into the Language of America

New drama

• Pierre Corneille
  • Le Menteur
  • Polyeucte
• Sir William Davenant - The Unfortunate Lovers published

Poetry

• Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant - Albion

Births

• March 26 - Louis Moréri, encyclopaedist (died 1680)
• September 18 - Bishop Gilbert Burnet, historian (died 1715)
• November 1 - John Strype, historian and biographer (died 1737)
• November 16 - Jean Chardin, travel writer (died 1713)

Deaths

• April 4 - Simon Episcopius, theologian (born 1583)
• April 20 - Christoph Demantius, composer and poet (born 1567)
• November 29 - William Cartwright, dramatist (born 1611)
• date unknown
  • Abraham Azulai, Kabbalistic author (born c. 1570)
  • Sidney Godolphin, poet (born 1610)
  • Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, Irish chronicler (born c. 1590)
  • Pedro de Oña, first known Chilean poet (born 1570)
• approx. date - Henry Glapthorne, dramatist (born 1610)