1657_in_literature
1657 in literature
Overview of the events of 1657 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1657.
- January – Madame de la Fayette returns to Paris, where she is introduced to, and becomes friends with, Madame de Sévigné.[1]
- March 2 – The Great Fire of Meireki in Edo, Japan, burns down the city's theatres, forcing actors to move to Osaka.[2]
Prose
- "William Allen" – Killing No Murder (variously attributed to Colonel Silius Titus, Edward Sexby or William Allen, an English Republican; Sexby admits authorship under duress)[3]
- Cave Beck – The Universal Character
- Theodore Haak (translator) – The Dutch Annotations Upon the Whole Bible (original 1637)[4]
- Li Yu (probable author) – The Carnal Prayer Mat (published 1693)
- Richard Ligon – A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes
- Jeremy Taylor – Discourse of the Nature, Offices and Measures of Friendship
- Brian Walton, Bishop of Chester – Polyglot Bible
- Baltasar Gracián – El criticón (third part)
- François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac – Pratique du théâtre
- Cyrano de Bergerac (posthumous) – L'Autre Monde: ou les États et Empires de la Lune (Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon)
- Christiaan Huygens – De ratiociniis in ludo aleae
- Nihon Ōdai Ichiran (日本王代一覧, Table of the Rulers of Japan)
- Paul Scarron – Roman comique (Comic romance, publication concluded)
Children
Les Jeux et plaisirs de l'enfance[5]
Drama
- Anonymous – Lust's Dominion (published, falsely attributed in some impressions to Marlowe; probably by Dekker and others, written c.1600)
- Richard Brome – The Queen's Exchange (published)
- Sir Aston Cockayne – The Obstinate Lady (published)
- Lodowick Carlell
- The Fool Would be a Favorite, or The Discreet Lover (published)
- The Tragedy of Osmond the Great Turk, or the Noble Servant (published)
- George Gerbier d'Ouvilly – The False Favourite Disgraced, and the Reward of Loyalty (published)
- Franciscus van den Enden – Philedonius
- Andreas Gryphius – Katharina von Georgien
- Thomas Jordan – Fancy's Festivals (masque) (published)
- Thomas Middleton (died 1627)
- No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's (published)
- Two New Plays; first publication of Women Beware Women and More Dissemblers Besides Women
Poetry
- William Davenant – Poems on Several Occasions
- Angelus Silesius – Heilige Seelenlust (collection of hymns)
- February 11 – Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle French author (died 1757)
- March 24 – Arai Hakuseki, Japanese scholar-bureaucrat and writer (died 1725)
- November 26 – William Derham, English natural philosopher and cleric (died 1735)
- unknown date – Matthew Tindal, English deist writer (died 1733)
- March 7 – Hayashi Razan (林羅山), Japanese philosopher (born 1583)
- April ? – Richard Lovelace, English Cavalier poet (born 1617)[6][7]
- August 29 – John Lilburne, English writer and agitator (born c. 1614)[8]
- November 18 – Luke Wadding, Irish historian (born 1588)
- November 19 – Théodore Tronchin, Swiss theologian (born 1582)
- unknown dates
- Junije Palmotić, Ragusan (Dubrovnik) dramatist and poet (born c. 1606)
- Thomas Tuke, English controversialist and cleric (born c. 1580)
- probable – Thomas Bayly, English religious controversialist (born early 17th century)[9]
- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné (1823). Lettres de Madame de Sévigné (in French). Dalibon. p. 128.
- Samuel L. Leiter (30 October 2014). Historical Dictionary of Japanese Traditional Theatre. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 23–. ISBN 978-1-4422-3911-1.
- Deborah W. Rooke (23 February 2012). Handel's Israelite Oratorio Libretti: Sacred Drama and Biblical Exegesis. OUP Oxford. p. 54. ISBN 978-0-19-927928-9.
- A. G. Keller, "Haak, Theodore (1605–1690)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, OUP 2004) Retrieved 25 July 2017
- Children's Book Gallery Retrieved 11 April 2016. Archived 2016-04-07 at the Wayback Machine
- Brinkley, Roberta Florence (1942). English Poetry of the Seventeenth Century. Norton. p. 462.
- "Richard Lovelace". Find A Grave. 2005-10-14. Retrieved 2021-04-17.
- Charles George Herbermann; Edward Aloysius Pace; Condé Bénoist Pallen (1912). The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church. Robert Appleton Company.