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Overview of the events of 1634 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1634 .
Events
January 1 – The
King's Men perform
Cymbeline at the court of King
Charles I of England .
January 22 – The King's Men perform
Davenant's
The Wits at the
Blackfriars Theatre in the
City of London .
February 3 –
James Shirley 's spectacular
masque
The Triumph of Peace is staged in London. A second performance takes place on February 13.
February 6 – Shirley's play
The Gamester is performed at court.
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February 18 –
Thomas Carew 's masque Coelum Britannicum is staged at
Whitehall Palace .
March – The
Académie française begins life as a project sponsored by
Cardinal Richelieu .
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February 29 – Under pressure from the
Duke de Medinaceli ,
Francisco de Quevedo marries Doña Esperanza de Aragón.
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April
April 7 – The King's Men perform
Chapman 's
Bussy D'Ambois at court.
April 8 – The tragicomedy
The Two Noble Kinsmen (first performed about
1614 ) is attributed in the
Stationers' Register in London to the late
John Fletcher and
William Shakespeare ; it is published for the first time later in the year.
May 1 –
Lodowick Carlell 's play The Spartan Lady is performed, but has since been lost.
May 7 –
William Prynne is sentenced by the
Star Chamber in England to a £5,000 fine, life imprisonment,
pillorying and clipping of his ears when his
Histriomastix (published
1632 ) is viewed as an attack on King
Charles I of England and Queen
Henrietta Maria .
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May 21 – A play called Lisander and Callista that is performed is probably a version of the
Fletcher /
Massinger collaboration
The Lovers' Progress .
July 30 – Ben Jonson's final
masque ,
Love's Welcome at Bolsover , is performed at
Bolsover Castle in the
East Midlands of England.
unknown date – The first part of
Giambattista Basile 's
fairy tale collection The
Pentamerone (
Neapolitan : Lo cunto de li cunti overo lo trattenemiento de peccerille , "The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones") is published posthumously by his sister Adriana in
Naples under the
pseudonym Gian Alesio Abbatutis, including Cenerentola , an early version of
Cinderella .
New books
Prose
Children
Anonymous –
Pentamerone (Neapolitan folk tales for young children)
Drama
Poetry
Births
Deaths
References