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The year 1634 in literature involved some significant events.
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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
Main article: 1634 in 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)
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