1632 in literature

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This article is a summary of the literary events and publications of 1632.

Events

• February 11 – Protestant pastor Nicolas Antoine is committed to an asylum after converting to Judaism.
• February 14 – Tempe Restored, a masque written by Aurelian Townshend and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed at Whitehall Palace.
• March – King Charles I of England and Queen Henrietta Maria visit the University of Cambridge. The students of Trinity College perform Thomas Randolph's The Jealous Lovers and Peter Hausted's The Rival Friends, the latter causing a theatrical riot and subsequent scandal.
• May – Tirso de Molina is appointed chronicler of the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy.
• Late – Publication in London of William Prynne's Histrio-mastix: The Players Scourge, or Actors Tragædie, an attack on the English Renaissance theatre (dated 1633).

New books

• Diego Collado – Ars grammaticae Iaponicae linguae
• Phineas Fletcher – The Way to Blessedness and Joy in Tribulation
• Galileo Galilei – Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo (Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems)
• John Lyly – Six Court Comedies (published posthumously by Edward Blount), containing Campaspe, Endymion, Gallathea, Midas, Mother Bombie, and Sapho and Phao
• Juan Pérez de Montalbán – Para todos
• Henry Reynolds – Mythomystes
• William Shakespeare – the Second Folio of the plays

New drama

• Anonymous – The Costly Whore
• William Alabaster – Roxana (Latin play, first performed during the 1590s) published
• Richard Brome – The Weeding of Covent Garden performed
  • The Northern Lass published
• Nathan Field & Philip Massinger – The Fatal Dowry published
• Thomas Goffe – The Courageous Turk published
• Robert Gomersal – Lodovick Sforza, Duke of Milan published
• Peter Hausted – The Rival Friends
• Thomas Heywood – The Iron Age, Part 1 and 2 published
• Ben Jonson – The Magnetic Lady
• Jean Mairet – Les Galanteries du duc d'Ossonne
• Philip Massinger – The City Madam performed
  • The Maid of Honour published
• Thomas Randolph -The Jealous Lovers
  • The Muses' Looking-Glass
• William Rowley (and others?) – A New Wonder, a Woman Never Vexed published
• James Shirley – The Ball
  • The Changes, or Love in a Maze
  • Hyde Park
• John Tatham – Love Crowns the End
• Aurelian Townshend – Tempe Restored (masque)

Poetry

Main article: 1632 in poetry

• John Milton – L'Allegro

Births

• January 1 – Katherine Philips, née Fowler, Anglo-Welsh poet, translator and woman of letters (died 1664)
• January 29 – Johann Georg Graevius, German classicist (died 1730)
• March 4 (bapt.) – Lancelot Addison, English author and father of Joseph Addison (died 1703)
• June 10 – Esprit Fléchier, French historian and bishop (died 1710)
• August 29 – John Locke, English philosopher (died 1704)
• November 23 – Jean Mabillon, French palaeographer (died 1707)
• November 24 – Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher (died 1677)
• December 17 – Anthony Wood, English antiquary (died 1695)

Deaths

• February 23 – Giambattista Basile, Neapolitan poet and fairy-tale collector (born c. 1570)
• April 20 – Nicolas Antoine, French theologian (executed, born c. 1602)
• May 5 – Luís de Sousa, Portuguese religious writer (born 1555)
• August 25 – Thomas Dekker, English dramatist (born c. 1572)
• By October – Edward Blount, English publisher (born 1562)
• Undated
  • Aharon Ibn Hayyim, Moroccan Talmudic commentator (born 1545)
  • Alexandre Hardy, French dramatist (plague, born c. 1571)
  • George Percy, English explorer and diarist (born 1580)