Editing 1636 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1636'''.

==Events==
*[[January 31]] – The [[King's Men (playing company)|King's Men]] perform [[Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Julius Caesar (play)|Julius Caesar]]'' at [[St James's Palace]], London.<ref name=Chambers>[[Edmund Kerchever Chambers|Chambers, E. K.]] ''The Elizabethan Stage.'' 4 Volumes, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1923.</ref>
*February – [[James Shirley]]'s [[tragicomedy]] ''[[The Duke's Mistress]]'' is performed at St James's Palace.<ref name=Chambers/>
*[[March 3]] – A "great charter" to the [[University of Oxford]] establishes the [[Oxford University Press]] as the second of England's [[privileged presses]].<ref>{{cite web |title=A Short History of Oxford University Press |url=http://global.oup.com/about/oup_history/?AB=B&cc=gb |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2012 |accessdate=2013-07-30}}</ref>
*April – [[Thomas Hobbes]] travels from Rome to Florence.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Quentin Skinner|author2=Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities Quentin Skinner|title=Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wJO9y-sPdLAC&pg=PA254|date=22 February 1996|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-55436-7|pages=254}}</ref>
*[[May 10]] – London theatres close, and remain almost continuously closed until the end of the year (and on to October 1637), due to an outbreak of [[bubonic plague]]. [[Playing company|Playing companies]] are profoundly impacted; the [[King's Revels Men]] dissolve and other companies tour the countryside to survive.<ref name=Chambers/>
*June – [[Tommaso Campanella]], having left Italy for France, because of his pro-French views, gives a speech in front of Cardinal Richelieu; he teaches at the [[University of Paris|Sorbonne]].<ref>{{cite book|title=L'Erasmo: bimestrale della civiltà europea|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WaArAQAAIAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Fondazione Biblioteca di via Senato|page=24|language=it}}</ref>
*August – King [[Charles I of England|Charles I]] and Queen [[Henrietta Maria of France|Henrietta Maria]] visit the [[University of Oxford]]. They are entertained with college theatricals, including 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 Lawes' music and design by [[Inigo Jones]]). Henrietta Maria enjoys the last so much that she brings it to be performed at [[Hampton Court Palace|Hampton Court]] by her [[Queen Henrietta's Men]].<ref name=Chambers/>
*November – Compilation of the [[Irish language]] [[Annals of the Four Masters]] is completed by [[Mícheál Ó Cléirigh]], assisted by [[Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh]], [[Fearfeasa Ó Maol Chonaire]] and [[Peregrine Ó Duibhgeannain]], in the [[Franciscan]] [[friary]] in [[Donegal Town]] in Ireland, under the patronage of [[Fearghal Ó Gadhra]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Bernadette Cunningham|title=The Annals of the Four Masters: Irish History, Kingship and Society in the Early Seventeenth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-58qAQAAMAAJ|year=2010|publisher=Four Courts Press|page=70}}</ref>
*[[December 8]] – The King's Men perform Shakespeare's ''[[Othello]]'' at Hampton Court Palace.<ref name=Chambers/>

==New books==
*[[Athanasius Kircher]] – ''[[Prodromus Coptus]]'', First grammar of the [[Coptic language]]
*Sir Henry Blount – ''A Voyage to the Levant''<ref>[http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1634blount.asp Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook. Accessed 1 February 2013]</ref>
*[[Juan Pérez de Montalbán]] – ''Fama póstuma a la vida y muerte de Lope de Vega Carpio''
*[[Salvador Jacinto Polo de Medina]] – ''Hospital de incurables y Viaje de este mundo y el otro''
*[[Cristóbal de Salazar Mardones]] – ''Ilustración y defensa de la Fábula de Píramo y Tisbe''
*[[José García de Salcedo Coronel]] – ''Comentario a las Soledades de Góngora''

==New drama==
*[[Richard Brome]] – ''[[The New Academy]]''
*[[Lodowick Carlell]] – ''Arviragus and Philicia''
*[[William Cartwright (dramatist)|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]]''
*[[Henry Glapthorne]] – ''The Hollander'' and perhaps ''Wit in a Constable''<ref>R. H. Shepherd, ed., ''The Plays and Poems of Henry Glapthorne: Now first collected with illustrative notes and a memoir of the Author'', 2 volumes, London, J. Pearson, 1874.</ref>
*[[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
* [[Pedro Calderón de la Barca]] 
**''Casa con dos puertas mala es de guardar''
**''La dama duende''
**''La devoción de la cruz''
**''La vida es sueño''
*''Parte XXX de comedias de varios autores''
*[[Tirso de Molina]] – 
**''La vida de Herodes''
**''Marta la piadosa''
*[[Thomas Nabbes]] – ''Microcosmus, a Moral Masque''
*[[Jean Rotrou]] – ''Les Deux Sosies''
*[[William Sampson (playwright)|William Sampson]] – ''The Vow-Breaker, or The Fayre Maid of Clifton''
*[[James Shirley]] – ''[[The Duke's Mistress]]''
*[[William Strode]] – ''The Floating Island''
*George Wilde – ''Love's Hospital''<ref>John R. Elliott, Jr and John Buttrey (1985). The Royal Plays at Christ Church in 1636: A New Document. Theatre Research International, 10, pp. 93–106. {{doi|10.1017/S0307883300010646}}.</ref>

==New poetry==
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*[[Abraham Cowley]] – ''Sylva'' (in the 2nd edition of his collection ''Poetical Blossoms'')
*[[William Sampson (playwright)|William Sampson]] – ''Virtus post Funera vivit, or Honour Tryumphing over Death, being true Epitomes of Honorable, Noble, Learned, and Hospitable Personages''

==Births==
*[[April 7]] – [[Gregório de Matos]], Brazilian poet (died [[1696 in literature|1696]])
*[[November 1]] – [[Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux]], French poet and critic (died [[1711 in literature|1711]])
*[[November 11]] – [[Yan Ruoqu]] (閻若璩), Chinese scholar and polymath (died [[1704 in literature|1704]])
*''Unknown dates''
**[[Joseph Glanvill]], English philosopher and cleric (died [[1680 in literature|1680]])
**[[James Janeway]], English children's writer and Puritan minister (died [[1674 in literature|1674]])
**[[Jean de Montigny]], French poet and philosopher (died [[1671 in literature|1671]])
*''Probable year of birth'' – [[Thomas Traherne]], English poet and religious writer (died [[1674 in literature|1674]])

==Deaths==
*[[January 19]] – [[Daniel Schwenter]], German Orientalist, polymath, poet and librarian (born [[1585 in literature|1585]])
*[[February 4]] – [[James Perrot]], Welsh politician and philosophical writer (born [[1571 in literature|1571]])
*[[April 26]] – [[Paul Hay du Chastelet]], French orator and writer (born [[1592 in literature|1592]]
*[[August 25]] – [[Bhai Gurdas]], Punjabi Sikh scholar (born [[1551 in literature|1551]])
*[[September 15]] – [[Cuthbert Burbage]], English theatre owner, associate of William Shakespeare (born [[1566 in literature|1566]])
*[[December 9]] – [[Fabian Birkowski]], Polish writer and preacher (born [[1566 in literature|1566]])
*''Unknown dates''
**[[Henning Arnisaeus]], German political theorist and philosopher (born [[1570 in literature|1570]])
**[[Johannes Messenius]], Swedish dramatist and historian (born [[1579 in literature|1579]])
**[[Cesare Rinaldi]], Italian poet (born [[1559 in literature|1559]])
**[[Wen Zhenmeng]] (文震孟), Chinese artist and author (born [[1574 in literature|1574]])
*''Probable date''
**[[Antonio Mira de Amescua]], Spanish dramatist (born c. 1578)
**[[William Sampson (playwright)|William Sampson]], English dramatist (born c. 1590)

==References==
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