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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 – '
  • Christiaan Huygens – '
  • Ninon de l'Enclos – ' (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 – '
  • 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
  • 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 – '
  • 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 – '
  • Richard Flecknoe – The Marriage of Oceanus and Britannia
  • Molière – '
  • Walter Montague – The Shepherd's Paradise
  • Agustín Moreto – No puede ser...
  • James Shirley
  • The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses
  • Honoria and Mammon
  • Joost van den Vondel – Jephta

Poetry

  • William Chamberlayne – '
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • September 22 – Thomas Morton, English polemicist and bishop (born 1564)
  • October 27 – Giovanni Francesco Busenello, Italian poet and librettist (born 1598)

References