1659 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1659.

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Events

• January 27 – The poet Andrew Marvell is elected a member of Parliament for Kingston upon Hull in England's Third Protectorate Parliament.
• August – William Davenant is briefly imprisoned for his part in George Booth's Cheshire uprising in favor of restoring the English Monarchy.
• unknown dates
  • Méric Casaubon edits John Dee's journal of angel magic.
  • The Icelandic pastor Jón Magnússon completes his Píslarsaga (Passion Saga, or Story of My Sufferings).

New books

Prose

• Richard Baxter – The Holy Commonwealth
• Méric Casaubon (ed.) – A True & Faithful Relation of What passed for many Yeers between Dr. John Dee (A Mathematician of Great Fame in Q. Eliz. and King James their Reignes) and some spirits
• Thomas Hobbes – De Homine
• Christiaan Huygens – Systema Saturnium
• Ninon de l'Enclos – La Coquette vengée (The Flirt Avenged)
• Richard Lovelace – Lucasta (posthumous)
• William Prynne – Parliamentary Writs (further parts in 1660, 1662 and 1664)
• Johann Heinrich Rahn – Teutsche Algebra
• Péter Révay – De monarchia et sacra corona regni hungariae centuriae septem
• John Rushworth – Historical Collections of Private Passages of State... (also The Rushworth Papers)
• Anna Maria van Schurman – The Learned Maid, or Whether a Maid May Be a Scholar? (English version of 1638 Latin original)
• Jeremy Taylor – Discourse on the Nature, Offices and Measures of Friendship

Drama

• Anonymous – The London Chanticleers[1]
• Richard Brome – Five New Plays, including The English Moor, The Lovesick Court, The Weeding of Covent Garden, The New Academy, and The Queen and Concubine
• Joan Leonardsz Blasius – De Edelmoedige Vijanden
• Sir William Davenant – The History of Sir Francis Drake
• John Day and Henry Chettle – The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green (published six decades after its premiere)
• Richard Flecknoe – The Marriage of Oceanus and Britannia
• Molière – Les Précieuses ridicules
• Walter Montague – The Shepherd's Paradise[2]
• Agustín Moreto – No puede ser...
• James Shirley
  • The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses
  • Honoria and Mammon
• Juan Bautista Diamante – El honrador de su padre

Poetry

• William Chamberlayne – Pharonnida: A heroick poem
• Luis de Ulloa Pereira – Versos

Births

• January 1 – Humphrey Hody, English theologian and archdeacon (died 1707)
• March – Margrethe Lasson, Danish novelist (died 1738)
• March 25 – John Asgill, English pamphleteer (died 1738)
• March 26 – William Wollaston, English philosopher, classicist and cleric (died 1724)
• April 29 – Sophia Elisabet Brenner, Swedish poet and writer (died 1730)[3]
• unknown dates
  • Thomas Creech, English classicist and translator (died 1700)
  • Kata Szidónia Petrőczy, Hungarian poet (died 1708)

Deaths

• January 7 – Laurenz Forer, Swiss theologian and controversialist writing in Latin and German (born 1580)
• January 31 – János Apáczai Csere, Hungarian linguist, mathematician and encyclopedist (born 1625)
• February 4 – Francis Osborne, English essayist (born 1593)
• April 15 – Simon Dach, German poet and hymnist (born 1605)
• June 3 – Morgan Llwyd, Welsh preacher, poet and writer (born 1619)[4]
• September 22 – Thomas Morton, English polemicist and bishop (born 1564)
• October 27 – Giovanni Francesco Busenello, Italian poet and librettist (born 1598)

References

1. Robert Dodsley (1874). A Select Collection of Old English Plays. Reeves and Turner. p. 11.
2. Tiffany Stern (17 September 2009). Documents of Performance in Early Modern England. Cambridge University Press. p. 329. ISBN 978-1-139-48297-4.
3. Klasse, Akademie der Wissenschaften (Wien) Philosophisch-Historische (1854). Sitzungsberichte (in German). Rohrer. p. 563.
4. "Morgan Llwyd | Welsh author". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 25 March 2019.