1645 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1645.

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Events

• December – William Cavendish, later Duke of Newcastle, marries Margaret Lucas, whom he has met while 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

Prose

• Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
  • De Causis Errorum (On the Causes of Errors)[3]
  • De Religione Laici (On the Religion of the Laity)[3]
• John Milton
  • Colasterion
  • Tetrachordon
• 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

• Luis Quiñones de Benavente – Jocoseria. Burlas veras, o reprensión moral y festiva de los desórdenes públicos
• Molière – Le Médecin volant
• Paul Scarron – Jodelet

Poetry

• 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

• 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

• 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

1. 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.
2. Nicoll (25 June 2009). History of English Drama, 1660-1900. Cambridge University Press. p. 394. ISBN 978-0-521-10928-4.
3. Sarah Hutton (2015). British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century. Oxford University Press. p. 234. ISBN 978-0-19-958611-0.
4. Smith, Melissa (2004). Reading Early Modern Women: An Anthology of Texts in Manuscript and Print, 1550-1700. Psychology Press. p. 225. ISBN 9780415966467.
5. O. Classe; [Anonymus AC02468681] (2000). Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English: A-L. Taylor & Francis. p. 787. ISBN 978-1-884964-36-7.
6. 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.