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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1635.

Events

  • February 22 – In Paris, the Académie française is founded.
  • May 6 – The King's Men perform Othello at the Blackfriars Theatre in London.
  • July 16 – Birth of René Descartes' daughter, Francine, at Deventer.
  • August 23 – A few days before his death, beset by family troubles, Lope de Vega writes his last poems.
  • Ottoman Turkish poet Nef'i is garroted in the grounds of the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul for his satirical verses.
  • Wallachian statesman Udriște Năsturel pays lyrical tribute to Prince Matei Basarab, his brother-in-law. Though composed and published in Slavonic, this is the first blason in Romanian literature, and by some accounts the first-ever Romanian poem.

New books

Prose

  • Sir Kenelm Digby – A Conference with a Lady about choice of a Religion
  • Thomas Heywood – The Hierarchy of the Blessed Angels
  • Tirso de Molina – Deleitar aprovechando
  • John Selden – Mare Clausum

Drama

  • Francis Bristowe – King Free-Will
  • Richard Brome – The Sparagus Garden
  • Pierre Corneille – Médée
  • William Davenant
  • News from Plymouth
  • The Platonick Lovers
  • The Temple of Love (masque)
  • Pedro Calderón de la Barca – Life is a Dream (La vida es sueño)
  • Isaac de Benserade – Cléopâtre
  • Henry Glapthorne
  • The Hollander
  • The Lady Mother (attr.)
  • Richard Lovelace – The Scholars
  • Jean Mairet – Le Marc-Antoine, ou la Cléopâtre
  • Thomas Nabbes – Hannibal and Scipio
  • Jean Rotrou – La Bague de l'oubli
  • Joseph Rutter – The Shepherd's Holiday performed at Court and published
  • James Shirley – The Coronation, The Lady of Pleasure performed; The Traitor published

Poetry

See 1635 in poetry

Births

  • January 13 – Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (died 1706)
  • February 1 – Marquard Gude, German classicist and archeologist (died 1689)
  • February 21 – Thomas Flatman, English poet and miniaturist (died 1688)
  • June 3 – Philippe Quinault, French dramatist and librettist (died 1688)
  • September 20 (baptism) – Thomas Sprat, English theologian and bishop (died 1713)

Deaths

  • March – Thomas Randolph, English poet and dramatist (born 1605)
  • April 7 – Leonard Digges, English poet (born 1588)
  • April 25 – Alessandro Tassoni, Italian poet (born 1565)
  • July 28 – Richard Corbet (Richard Corbett), English poet and bishop (born 1582)
  • August (burial) – Richard Whitbourne, English Newfoundland colonist and writer (born 1561)
  • August 27 – Lope de Vega, Spanish dramatist and poet (born 1562)
  • October 18 – Jean de Schelandre, French poet (born c. 1585)
  • November 8 – Aodh Buidhe Mac an Bhaird, Irish poet, historian and friar (born c. 1593)
  • November 25 – Dr John Hall, English medical writer and son-in-law of William Shakespeare (born 1575)

References