1635 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1635.

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Events

• February 22 – In Paris, the Académie française is founded.
• May 6 – The King's Men perform Othello at the Blackfriars Theatre in London.
• July 16 – Birth of René Descartes' daughter, Francine, at Deventer.
• August 23 – A few days before his death, beset by family troubles, Lope de Vega writes his last poems.[1]
• Ottoman Turkish poet Nef'i is garroted in the grounds of the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul for his satirical verses.
• Wallachian statesman Udriște Năsturel pays lyrical tribute to Prince Matei Basarab, his brother-in-law. Though composed and published in Slavonic, this is the first blason in Romanian literature,[2] and by some accounts the first-ever Romanian poem.[3]

New books

Prose

• Sir Kenelm Digby – A Conference with a Lady about choice of a Religion
• Thomas Heywood – The Hierarchy of the Blessed Angels
• Tirso de Molina – Deleitar aprovechando
• John Selden – Mare Clausum

Drama

• Francis Bristowe – King Free-Will
• Richard Brome – The Sparagus Garden
• Pierre Corneille – Médée
• William Davenant
  • News from Plymouth
  • The Platonick Lovers
  • The Temple of Love (masque)
• Pedro Calderón de la Barca – Life is a Dream (La vida es sueño)
• Isaac de Benserade – Cléopâtre
• Henry Glapthorne
  • The Hollander
  • The Lady Mother (attr.)
• Richard Lovelace – The Scholars
• Jean Mairet – Le Marc-Antoine, ou la Cléopâtre
• Thomas Nabbes – Hannibal and Scipio
• Jean Rotrou – La Bague de l'oubli
• Joseph Rutter – The Shepherd's Holiday performed at Court and published
• James Shirley – The Coronation, The Lady of Pleasure performed; The Traitor published

Poetry

See 1635 in poetry

Births

• January 13 – Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (died 1706)
• February 1 – Marquard Gude, German classicist and archeologist (died 1689)
• February 21 – Thomas Flatman, English poet and miniaturist (died 1688)
• June 3 – Philippe Quinault, French dramatist and librettist (died 1688)
• September 20 (baptism) – Thomas Sprat, English theologian and bishop (died 1713)

Deaths

• March – Thomas Randolph, English poet and dramatist (born 1605)
• April 7 – Leonard Digges, English poet (born 1588)
• April 25 – Alessandro Tassoni, Italian poet (born 1565)
• July 28 – Richard Corbet (Richard Corbett), English poet and bishop (born 1582)
• August (burial) – Richard Whitbourne, English Newfoundland colonist and writer (born 1561)
• August 27 – Lope de Vega, Spanish dramatist and poet (born 1562)
• October 18 – Jean de Schelandre, French poet (born c. 1585)
• November 8 – Aodh Buidhe Mac an Bhaird, Irish poet, historian and friar (born c. 1593)
• November 25 – Dr John Hall, English medical writer and son-in-law of William Shakespeare (born 1575)

References

1. James Fitzmaurice-Kelly (1971). Lope de Vega and the Spanish Drama. Ardent Media. p. 26.
2. Tănăsescu, Manuela (2004). "Năsturel Udriște". In Sasu, Aurel (ed.). Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române. 2. Pitești: Editura Paralela 45. pp. 183–184. ISBN 973-697-758-7.
3. Călinescu, George (1986). Istoria literaturii române de la origini pînă în prezent. Bucharest: Minerva. p. 46.