1633 in literature

The year 1633 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

• May 21 - Ben Jonson's masque The King's Entertainment at Welbeck is performed.
• October 18 - King Charles I of England re-issues the Declaration of Sports, originally published by his father, King James I in 1617, listing the sports and recreations permitted on Sundays and other holy days.
• November 17 - King Charles I of England and Queen Henrietta Maria watch the King's Men perform Shakespeare's Richard III on the Queen's birthday at St. James's Palace.
• November 26 - The King and Queen watch The Taming of the Shrew at St. James's Palace.
• Queen Henrietta's Men have a great stage hit with their revival of Marlowe's The Jew of Malta, with Richard Perkins in the title role.
• In view of the condemnation of Galileo Galilei by the Catholic Church, René Descartes abandons plans to publish Treatise on the World, his work of the past four years.

New books

• William Alabaster - Ecce sponsus venit
• John Donne - first edition of the collected Poems
• "Henry van Etten" (pseudonym for Jean Leurechon) - Mathematical Recreations
• Fulke Greville - Certain Learned and Elegant Works (containing the closet dramas Alaham and Mustapha)
• John Marston - the first collection of his plays

New drama

• Anonymous - The Costly Whore published
• Thomas Carew - Coelum Britanicum (masque)
• John Fletcher & James Shirley - The Night Walker
• John Ford - three plays published in individual editions: The Broken Heart; Love's Sacrifice; 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
• Henry Glapthorne - Argalus and Parthenia (approx. date)
• Thomas Goffe - Orestes published
• Peter Hausted - The Rival Friends published
  • Senile Odium published
• Thomas Heywood - The English Traveller
• Ben Jonson - The King's Entertainment at Welbeck
• Christopher Marlowe - The Jew of Malta published (first quarto)
• Shackerley Marmion - A Fine Companion published
• Philip Massinger - A New Way to Pay Old Debts published
• Walter Mountfort - The Launching of the Mary
• Thomas Nabbes - Covent Garden
• William Rowley - All's Lost by Lust and A Match at Midnight published
• James Shirley -The Gamester
  • The Young Admiral
  • The Bird in a Cage performed and published
  • A Contention for Honor and Riches published
• Arthur Wilson - The Inconstant Lady

Poetry

• Abraham Cowley - Poetical Blossoms
• Phineas Fletcher - The Purple Island, or the Isle of Man
• George Herbert - The Temple

Births

• February 23 - Samuel Pepys, diarist (died 1703)
• July 1 - Johann Heinrich Heidegger, theologian (died 1698)
• November 11 - George Savile, 1 Marquess of Halifax, politician and writer (died 1695)

Deaths

• March 1 - George Herbert, poet (born 1593)
• August 10 - Anthony Munday, dramatist (born c. 1560)
• September 4 - Lady Margaret Hoby, diarist (born 1571)
• date unknown - Richard Hawkins, London publisher