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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1645.
Events
[edit]- December – William Cavendish, later Duke of Newcastle, marries Margaret Lucas, whom he has met while himself in exile in France.[1]
- unknown dates
- With the London theatres closed by the Puritan regime during the English Civil War, closet drama grows in prominence. Henry Burkhead's Cola's Fury, or Lirenda's Misery[2] is written in this genre and the sisters Jane Cavendish and Elizabeth Egerton probably complete their The Concealed Fansyes while besieged.
New books
[edit]Prose
[edit]- Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
- John Milton
- Elizabeth Richardson, Baroness Cramond – A Lady's Legacy to her Daughters[4]
- Alexander Ross
- Medicus Medicatus
- The Philosophical Touchstone
- Francisco Manuel de Melo – Guerra de Cataluña
- Horacio Carochi – Arte de la lengua mexicana
- Daniello Bartoli – L'huomo di lettere
- Hermann Busenbaum – Medulla theologiae moralis
Drama
[edit]- Luis Quiñones de Benavente – Jocoseria. Burlas veras, o reprensión moral y festiva de los desórdenes públicos
- Molière – Le Médecin volant
- Paul Scarron – Jodelet
Poetry
[edit]- John Milton – Poems of Mr. John Milton, Both English and Latin, compos'd at several times (dated this year, published early 1646)
- Sheikh Muhammad – Yoga-samgrama
- Edmund Waller – Poems
Births
[edit]- August 14 – Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, Mexican priest, poet, geographer, and historian (died 1700)
- August 16 or 17 – Jean de La Bruyère, French essayist (died 1696)[5]
- Unknown date – Edmund Bohun, English historian, publicist and political writer (died 1699)[6]
Deaths
[edit]- April 17 – Daniel Featley, English Calvinist theologian (born 1582)
- August 28 – Hugo Grotius, Dutch polymath (born 1583)
- August 31 – Francesco Bracciolini, Italian poet (born 1566)
- September 8 – Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish nobleman, politician and poet (born 1580)
- Unknown dates
- Feng Menglong (馮夢龍), Chinese vernacular poet and author (born 1574)
- William Lithgow, Scottish travel writer (born 1582)
- John Paul Nazarius, Italian Dominican theologian (born 1556)
References
[edit]- ^ Brandie R. Siegfried; Lisa T. Sarasohn (22 April 2016). God and Nature in the Thought of Margaret Cavendish. Routledge. p. 211. ISBN 978-1-317-12673-7.
- ^ Nicoll (25 June 2009). History of English Drama, 1660-1900. Cambridge University Press. p. 394. ISBN 978-0-521-10928-4.
- ^ a b Sarah Hutton (2015). British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century. Oxford University Press. p. 234. ISBN 978-0-19-958611-0.
- ^ Smith, Melissa (2004). Reading Early Modern Women: An Anthology of Texts in Manuscript and Print, 1550-1700. Psychology Press. p. 225. ISBN 9780415966467.
- ^ O. Classe; [Anonymus AC02468681] (2000). Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English: A-L. Taylor & Francis. p. 787. ISBN 978-1-884964-36-7.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Hartman, Jan; Reinders, Michel (2009). Public Offices, Personal Demands: Capability in Governance in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 234. ISBN 9781443810968.