1650 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1650.

Events

• Blaise Pascal's poor health forces him to retire from the study of mathematics.
• Parliament appoints a commission for the propagation and preaching of the gospel in Wales, advised by Vavasor Powell.
• Despite the official prohibition against stage plays in England, theatrical manager and promoter William Beeston finances repairs to the Cockpit Theatre and attempts to assemble and train a company of young actors. His effort is unsuccessful.
• Under this year's Blasphemy Act, English radical Jacob Bauthumley is arrested, convicted and has his tongue pierced on account of his book The Light and Dark Sides of God.
• Robert Baron publishes his plagiarized work Pocula Castalia, stealing mainly from the minor poems of John Milton issued in 1645.
• At about this date Agneta Horn writes her autobiography, Agneta Horns leverne, in Swedish; it will not be discovered until 1885.

New books

Prose

• Elias Ashmole – Fasciculus Chemicus
• Richard Flecknoe – The Idea of His Highness Oliver ...
• Jonas Moore – Moores Arithmetick
• Francisco de Quevedo – La hora de todos y la fortuna con seso
• George Walker – Anglo-Tyrannus

Drama

• François le Métel de Boisrobert – La Jalouse d'elle-même
• Abraham Cowley – The Guardian
• Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla – Del rey abajo, ninguno

Poetry

• Anne Bradstreet – The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America
• Andrew Marvell – An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland
• Francisco de Trillo y Figueroa – Panegírico y natalicio al marqués de Montalbán
• Henry Vaughan – Silex scintillans (part 1)

Births

• June 14 – Carlo Alessandro Guidi, Italian lyric poet (died 1712)
• July – Charles Leslie, Irish theologian (died 1722)
• September 23 – Bishop Jeremy Collier, English theologian and theatre critic (died 1726)
• Unknown dates
  • Madame d'Aulnoy, French writer of fairy tales (died 1705)
  • Henry Scougal, Scottish theologian (died 1678)

Deaths

• February 11 – René Descartes, French philosopher (born 1596)
• April 22 – Stephanius, Danish royal historiographer (born 1599)
• May 27 – Anthony Ascham, English political theorist (born c. 1614)
• June – Jean Rotrou, French poet and dramatist (born 1609)
• June 30 – Niccolò Cabeo, Italian philosopher (born 1586)
• August 25 – Richard Crashaw, English poet (born c. 1613)
• September 17 – Constantino Cajetan, Italian scholar and book collector (born 1560)
• October 25 – Franciscus Quaresmius, Milanese Franciscan writer (born 1583)
• November 13 – Thomas May, English poet and historian (born 1595)
• December 28 – Bartol Kašić, Croatian linguist and grammarian (born 1575)
• Unknown dates
  • Balthazar Baro, French poet, dramatist and romance-writer (born 1596)
  • İbrahim Peçevi, Ottoman historian (born 1572)
  • Tukaram, Hindu poet