1636 in literature

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The year 1636 in literature involved some significant events.

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Thomas Hobbes visits Florence.
On January 31, the King's Men perform Shakespeare's Julius Caesar at St. James's Palace.
James Shirley's The Duke's Mistress is performed at St. James's Palace in late February.
Tommaso Campanella leaves Italy for France, due to his pro-French views; he teaches at the Sorbonne.
King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria visit Oxford University in August. They are entertained with the usual college theatricals, including productions of William Strode's allegory The Floating Island (with music by Henry Lawes), which mocks William Prynne as the play-hating Melancholico; George Wilde's Love's Hospital; and William Cartwright's The Royal Slave (also with music by Lawes, and design by Inigo Jones). Henrietta Maria enjoys the last-named work so much that she has it brought to London and acted at Hampton Court by her own company, Queen Henrietta's Men.
From May 10 through the end of the year (and on to October 1637), the London theatres are almost continuously closed due to a severe outbreak of bubonic plague. The theatres and playing companies are profoundly impacted; the King's Revels Men dissolve, and other companies tour the countryside to survive. (Despite the plague, the King's Men perform Othello at Hampton Court Palace on December 8.)

Richard Brome - The New Academy
Lodowick Carlell - Arviragus and Philicia
William Cartwright - The Royal Slave
John Cayworth - Enchiridion Christiados (masque)
Pierre Corneille - L'Illusion Comique, performed
Sir William Davenant - The Triumphs of the Prince D'Amour (masque), The Wits, and The Platonick Lovers published
Pierre Corneille - Le Cid
François Tristan l'Hermite - La Mariane
Thomas Heywood - A Challenge for Beauty published
Thomas Killigrew – Claracilla
Philip Massinger - The Bashful Lover performed; The Great Duke of Florence published
Tirso de Molina - La vida de Herodes
Thomas Nabbes - Microcosmus, a Moral Masque
Jean Rotrou - Les Deux Sosies
James Shirley - The Duke's Mistress
William Strode - The Floating Island
George Wilde - Love's Hospital

Abraham Cowley - Sylva (in the 2nd edition of his collection Poetical Blossoms)

November 1 - Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, poet and critic (died 1711)
date unknown
- Joseph Glanvill, philosopher (died 1680)
- Gregório de Mattos, poet (died 1696)
- Jean de Montigny, poet and philosopher (died 1671)
- Thomas Traherne, poet and religious writer (died 1674)