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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of
1659
.
Events
January 27
– The poet
Andrew Marvell
is elected a member of Parliament for
Kingston upon Hull
in England's
Third Protectorate Parliament
.
August –
William Davenant
is briefly imprisoned for his part in
George Booth
's Cheshire uprising in favor of restoring the English Monarchy.
unknown dates
Méric Casaubon
edits
John Dee
's journal of angel magic.
The Icelandic pastor
Jón Magnússon
completes his
Píslarsaga
(Passion Saga, or Story of My Sufferings).
New books
Prose
Richard Baxter
–
The Holy Commonwealth
Méric Casaubon
(ed.) –
A True & Faithful Relation of What passed for many Yeers between Dr.
John Dee
(A Mathematician of Great Fame in Q. Eliz. and King James their Reignes) and some spirits
Thomas Hobbes
–
De Homine
Christiaan Huygens
–
Systema Saturnium
Ninon de l'Enclos
–
La Coquette vengée
(The Flirt Avenged)
Richard Lovelace
–
Lucasta
(posthumous)
William Prynne
–
Parliamentary Writs
(further parts in 1660, 1662 and 1664)
Johann Heinrich Rahn
–
Teutsche Algebra
Péter Révay
–
De monarchia et sacra corona regni hungariae centuriae septem
John Rushworth
–
Historical Collections of Private Passages of State...
(also
The Rushworth Papers
)
Anna Maria van Schurman
–
The Learned Maid, or Whether a Maid May Be a Scholar?
(English version of 1638 Latin original)
Jeremy Taylor
–
Discourse on the Nature, Offices and Measures of Friendship
Drama
Anonymous –
The London Chanticleers
[1]
Richard Brome
–
Five New Plays
, including
The English Moor
,
The Lovesick Court
,
The Weeding of Covent Garden
,
The New Academy
, and
The Queen and Concubine
Joan Leonardsz Blasius
–
De Edelmoedige Vijanden
Sir
William Davenant
–
The History of Sir Francis Drake
John Day
and
Henry Chettle
–
The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green
(published six decades after its premiere)
Juan Bautista Diamante
–
El honrador de su padre
Richard Flecknoe
–
The Marriage of Oceanus and Britannia
Molière
–
Les Précieuses ridicules
Walter Montague
–
The Shepherd's Paradise
[2]
Agustín Moreto
–
No puede ser...
James Shirley
The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses
Honoria and Mammon
Joost van den Vondel
–
Jephta
Poetry
Main article:
1659 in poetry
William Chamberlayne
–
Pharonnida: A heroick poem
Luis de Ulloa Pereira
–
Versos
Births
January 1
–
Humphrey Hody
, English theologian and archdeacon (died
1707
)
March –
Margrethe Lasson
, Danish novelist (died
1738
)
March 25
–
John Asgill
, English pamphleteer (died
1738
)
March 26
–
William Wollaston
, English philosopher, classicist and cleric (died
1724
)
April 29
–
Sophia Elisabet Brenner
, Swedish poet and writer (died
1730
)
[3]
unknown dates
Thomas Creech
, English classicist and translator (died
1700
)
Kata Szidónia Petrőczy
, Hungarian poet (died
1708
)
Deaths
January 7
–
Laurenz Forer
, Swiss theologian and controversialist writing in Latin and German (born
1580
)
January 31
–
János Apáczai Csere
, Hungarian linguist, mathematician and encyclopedist (born
1625
)
February 4
–
Francis Osborne
, English essayist (born
1593
)
April 15
–
Simon Dach
, German poet and hymnist (born
1605
)
June 3
–
Morgan Llwyd
, Welsh preacher, poet and writer (born
1619
)
[4]
September 22
–
Thomas Morton
, English polemicist and bishop (born
1564
)
October 27
–
Giovanni Francesco Busenello
, Italian poet and librettist (born
1598
)
References
^
Robert Dodsley (1874).
A Select Collection of Old English Plays
. Reeves and Turner. p. 11.
^
Tiffany Stern (17 September 2009).
Documents of Performance in Early Modern England
. Cambridge University Press. p. 329.
ISBN
978-1-139-48297-4
.
^
Klasse, Akademie der Wissenschaften (Wien) Philosophisch-Historische (1854).
Sitzungsberichte
(in German). Rohrer. p. 563.
^
"Morgan Llwyd | Welsh author"
.
Encyclopedia Britannica
. Retrieved
25 March
2019
.
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