1636 in literature explained
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1636.
Events
- January 31 – The King's Men perform Shakespeare's Julius Caesar at St James's Palace, London.[1]
- February – James Shirley's tragicomedy The Duke's Mistress is performed at St James's Palace.[1]
- March 3 – A "great charter" to the University of Oxford establishes the Oxford University Press as the second of England's privileged presses.[2]
- April – Thomas Hobbes travels from Rome to Florence.[3]
- May 10 – London theatres close, and remain almost continuously closed until the end of the year (and on to October 1637), due to an outbreak of bubonic plague. Playing companies are profoundly impacted; the King's Revels Men dissolve and other companies tour the countryside to survive.[1]
- June – Tommaso Campanella, having left Italy for France, because of his pro-French views, gives a speech in front of Cardinal Richelieu; he teaches at the Sorbonne.[4]
- August – King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria visit the University of Oxford. They are entertained with college theatricals, including William Strode's allegory The Floating Island (with music by Henry Lawes), which mocks William Prynne as the play-hating Melancholico; George Wilde's Love's Hospital; and William Cartwright's The Royal Slave (also with Lawes' music and design by Inigo Jones). Henrietta Maria enjoys the last so much that she brings it to be performed at Hampton Court by her Queen Henrietta's Men.[1]
- November – Compilation of the Irish language Annals of the Four Masters is completed by Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, assisted by Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh, Fearfeasa Ó Maol Chonaire and Peregrine Ó Duibhgeannain, in the Franciscan friary in Donegal Town in Ireland, under the patronage of Fearghal Ó Gadhra.[5]
- December 8 – The King's Men perform Shakespeare's Othello at Hampton Court Palace.[1]
New books
- Athanasius Kircher – First grammar of the Coptic language
- Sir Henry Blount – A Voyage to the Levant[6]
- Juan Pérez de Montalbán – Fama póstuma a la vida y muerte de Lope de Vega Carpio
- Salvador Jacinto Polo de Medina – Hospital de incurables y Viaje de este mundo y el otro
- Cristóbal de Salazar Mardones – Ilustración y defensa de la Fábula de Píramo y Tisbe
- José García de Salcedo Coronel – Comentario a las Soledades de Góngora
New drama
New poetry
See main article: 1636 in poetry.
- Abraham Cowley – Sylva (in the 2nd edition of his collection Poetical Blossoms)
- William Sampson – Virtus post Funera vivit, or Honour Tryumphing over Death, being true Epitomes of Honorable, Noble, Learned, and Hospitable Personages
Births
Deaths
Notes and References
- [Edmund Kerchever Chambers|Chambers, E. K.]
- Web site: A Short History of Oxford University Press . Oxford University Press . 2012 . 2013-07-30.
- Book: Quentin Skinner. Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities Quentin Skinner. Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes. 22 February 1996. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-55436-7. 254.
- Book: L'Erasmo: bimestrale della civiltà europea. 2000. Fondazione Biblioteca di via Senato. 24. it.
- Book: Bernadette Cunningham. The Annals of the Four Masters: Irish History, Kingship and Society in the Early Seventeenth Century. 2010. Four Courts Press. 70.
- http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1634blount.asp Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook. Accessed 1 February 2013
- R. H. Shepherd, ed., The Plays and Poems of Henry Glapthorne: Now first collected with illustrative notes and a memoir of the Author, 2 volumes, London, J. Pearson, 1874.
- John R. Elliott, Jr and John Buttrey (1985). The Royal Plays at Christ Church in 1636: A New Document. Theatre Research International, 10, pp. 93–106. .
