1646 in literature
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The year 1646 in literature involved some significant events.
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[edit] Events
- March 24 - The King's Men petition Parliament for three and a half years' back pay; this is despite the London theatres officially remaining closed through the middle 1640s. No details of their activities in these years survive.
- May 5 - Martin Llewellyn's drama The King Found at Southwell is performed at Oxford; it is the last stage piece presented in the city before its surrender to Parliamentary forces in the English Civil War, June 22-4.
- John Lilburne is placed in the Tower of London for denouncing his former commander the Earl of Manchester as a traitor.
- Jacqueline Pascal is converted to Jansenism by her brother, Blaise Pascal.
[edit] New books
- Anonymous (John Lilburne?) - London's Liberty in Chains Discovered
- Anonymous (John Lilburne?) - Vox Plebis, or the People's Outcry
- Sir Thomas Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Vulgar Errors
- Thomas Fuller - Andronicus or the Unfortunate Politician
- Sir John Suckling - An Account of Religion by Reason published
[edit] New drama
- Pierre Corneille - Théodore
- Jean de Rotrou - Célie
- James Shirley - The Triumph of Beauty (masque)
- Sir John Suckling - Fragmenta Aurea, collected plays, including The Sad One (unfinished)
[edit] Poetry
- Richard Crashaw - Steps to the Temple
- Martin Lluelyn - Men-Miracles
- John Milton - Poems
- Francis Quarles - The Shepherds' Oracle
- James Shirley - Poems
- Henry Vaughan - Poems, with the Tenth Satire of Juvenal Englished
[edit] Births
- March 19 - Michael Kongehl, poet (died 1710)
- July 1 - Gottfried Leibniz, philosopher (died 1716)
- July 20 - Eusèbe Renaudot, theologian (died 1720)
- probable - John Mason, poet, preacher and hymn-writer (died 1694)
[edit] Deaths
- August 19 - Alexander Henderson (theologian) (born c.1583)
- September 17 - Erycius Puteanus, philologist and encyclopedist (born 1574)
- October 23 - David Wedderburn, schoolmaster and author of textbooks (born 1580)
- December 23 - François Maynard, poet (born c.1582)
