1637_in_literature

1637 in literature

The year 1637 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

Hamlet is performed before King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria at Hampton Court Palace on January 24.
On October 2, the London theatres re-open; they had been closed almost continuously since May 1636, due to a severe outbreak of bubonic plague.
The King's Men mount a production for the Court of William Cartwright's The Royal Slave, a play that was first staged at Christ Church, Oxford the previous year. The company is paid an extra £30 "for their pains in studying and acting" the drama.

René Descartes - Discours de la Méthode
Thomas Heywood - Pleasant Dialogues and Dramas
Marin Mersenne - Universal Harmony
María de Zayas y Sotomayor - Novelas amorosas y ejemplares
Five plays by James Shirley are published in individual editions - The Example, The Gamester, Hyde Park, The Lady of Pleasure, and The Young Admiral

Pedro Calderón de la Barca - El Tetrarca published
John Fletcher and Philip Massinger - The Elder Brother published.
François Tristan l'Hermite - Penthée
Thomas Heywood - The Royal King and the Loyal Subject published
John Milton - Comus (masque) published
Thomas Nabbes - Microcosmus, a Moral Masque
Thomas Neale - The Warde
Joseph Rutter - The Cid, Part 1 published
James Shirley - five plays published in five single-play quartos: The Example, The Gamester, Hyde Park, The Lady of Pleasure, and The Young Admiral
Sir John Suckling - Aglaura
George Wilde - The Converted Robber

William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling - Recreations of the Muses
James Day - A New Spring of Divine Poetry
Thomas Jordan - Poetical Varieties
Shackerley Marmion - Cupid and Psyche, a 2000-line translation and adaptation of The Golden Ass of Apuleius