1634 in literature

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The year 1634 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

• January 1 - The King's Men perform Cymbeline at the court of King Charles I of England.
• January 22 - The King's Men perform Davenant's The Wits at the Blackfriars Theatre.
• February 3 - James Shirley's spectacular masque The Triumph of Peace is staged in London. A repeat performance takes place on February 13.
• February 6 - Shirley's play The Gamester is performed at court.
• February 18 - Thomas Carew's masque Coelum Britannicum is staged at Whitehall Palace.
• April 7 - The King's Men perform Chapman's Bussy D'Ambois at court.
• April 8 - The Two Noble Kinsmen is entered into the Stationers' Register; it is published later in the year.
• May 1 - Lodowick Carlell's play The Spartan Lady (now lost) is performed.
• May 21 - A play called Lisander and Callista is performed — probably a version of the Fletcher/Massinger collaboration The Lovers' Progress.
• July 30 - Ben Jonson's final masque, Love's Welcome at Bolsover, is performed at Bolsover Castle.
• The Académie française is founded by Cardinal Richelieu.
• The Duke de Medinaceli forces Francisco de Quevedo into a short-lived marriage with Doña Esperanza de Aragón.

New books

• Moses Amyraut - Traité de la predestination
• Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo - El Curioso y fabio Alexandro
• John Blaxton - The English Usurer
• William Haydon - The True Picture and Relation of Prince Henry...
• Thomas Herbert - Some Yeares Travels into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique
• Sir Thomas Muffet - Theatrum Insectorum

New drama

• Juan Ruiz de Alarcón - La verdad sospechosa (published)
• Richard Brome & Thomas Heywood - The Late Lancashire Witches
• William Davenant - The Wits
  • - Love and Honour, also known as The Courage of Love
  • - The Temple of Love (masque)
• John Ford (& Thomas Dekker?) - Perkin Warbeck published
• Thomas Heywood - A Maidenhead Well Lost published
• Ben Jonson - Love's Welcome at Bolsover
• John Milton - Comus (masque)
• Thomas Nabbes - Tottenham Court
• James Shirley - The Example
  • - The Opportunity
  • - The Triumph of Peace (masque)

Poetry

• Richard Crashaw - Epigrammatum sacrorum liber ("A Book of Sacred Epigrams," in Latin)
• William Habington - Castara (published anonymously)
• Johann von Rist - Musa Teutonica

Births

• March - Madame de la Fayette, novelist (died 1693)
• July 14 - Pasquier Quesnel, theologian (died 1719)
• December 15 - Thomas Hansen Kingo, poet (died 1703)
• date unknown - Pierre Thomas, memoirist (died 1698)

Deaths

• May 12 - George Chapman, dramatist, poet and translator Born c.1559
• June 25 - John Marston, dramatist (born 1576)
• date unknown - Randle Cotgrave, lexicographer (born 1587)
• probable - John Webster, dramatist (born c.1580)