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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1642.

Events

May – The 35-year-old John Milton marries the teenage Mary Powell. A few weeks later she leaves him in London and returns to her family in Oxfordshire.^[1]
May/June – English Cavalier poet Richard Lovelace is incarcerated in the Gatehouse Prison, Westminster for defying Parliament. During his time there he may be writing "To Althea, from Prison".^[2]
September 2 – London theatre closure 1642: The theatres in London are closed by order of the Puritan Long Parliament; the "lascivious mirth and levity" of stage plays are to "cease and be forborn" for the next 18 years, during the English Civil War and the Interregnum. Richard Brome's A Jovial Crew is reportedly staged on the final day, making it the last to be legitimately performed in the era of English Renaissance theatre.

New books

Prose

Thomas Browne – Religio Medici
Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède – Cassandre
Thomas Fuller – The Holy State and the Profane State
Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft – Nederduytsche Historiën (History of the Netherlands, publication begins)
Sir Walter Ralegh – The Prince, or Maxims of State
Alonso de Castillo Solórzano – La garduña de Sevilla y anzuelo de las bolsas
Tohfatu'l-Ahbab, a Persian-language work by Muhammad Ali Kashmiri^[3]

Drama

Antonio Coello – Los empeños de seis horas (approximate date)
Pierre Corneille – Polyeucte
François le Métel de Boisrobert – La Belle Palène
Donaires del gusto
Pierre du Ryer – Saul
Francis Jaques – The Queen of Corsica
James Shirley – The Sisters
Jan Vos – Klucht van Oene (The Farce of Oene)

Poetry

John Denham – Cooper's Hill, the first example in English of a poem devoted to local description, in this case the Thames scenery around the author's home at Egham in Surrey
Richard Lovelace – "To Althea, from Prison"
Alonso de Castillo Solórzano – Academias morales de las musas

Births

March 15 (baptised) – Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, English politician and writer (died 1711)
April 21 – Simon de la Loubère, French diplomat, writer, mathematician and poet (died 1729)
April 30 – Christian Weise, German dramatist and poet (died 1708)^[4]
December 30 – Vincenzo da Filicaja, Florentine poet (died 1707)
Unknown dates
- Abdul-Qādir Bīdel, Persian Sufi poet (died 1720)
- Josep Romaguera, Catalan author (died 1723)
- Ihara Saikaku (井原西鶴), Japanese poet and creator of the ukiyozōshi (floating world) genre of prose (died 1693)
- James Tyrrell, English political philosopher (died 1718)
Probable year of birth
- Thomas Shadwell, English dramatist (died 1698)
- Edward Taylor, English-born colonial American poet and author (died 1729)

Deaths

May 14 – Nicolas Ysambert, French theologian (born c. 1565)
June 1 – Sir John Suckling, English poet (born 1609)
July 5 – Festus Hommius, Dutch Calvinist theologian (born 1576)^[5]
Unknown dates
- Abdul-Haqq Dehlavi, Indian Islamic scholar and writer (born 1551)
- Sir Francis Kynaston, English poet (born 1587)
- James Mabbe, English scholar, poet and translator (born 1572)

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References

↑ Campbell, Gordon (2004). "Milton, John (1608–1674)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/18800 . Retrieved 2013-10-25.(subscription or UK public library membership required)
↑ Wood, Anthony. Athenæ Oxonienses.
↑ Muḥammad, A. K., & Pandit, K. N. (2009). A Muslim missionary in mediaeval Kashmir: Being the English translation of Tohfatu'l-ahbab. New Delhi: Voice of India.
↑ Nathan Haskell Dole (December 2003). The Bibliophile Dictionary: A Biographical Record of the Great Authors. The Minerva Group, Inc. pp. 577–. ISBN 978-1-4102-1040-1.
↑ Anthony a Wood (1967). Athen Oxonienses: An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops who Have Had Their Education in the University of Oxford. B. Franklin. p. 1620.

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[1] Campbell, Gordon (2004). "Milton, John (1608–1674)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/18800 . Retrieved 2013-10-25.(subscription or UK public library membership required)

[2] Wood, Anthony. Athenæ Oxonienses.

[3] Muḥammad, A. K., & Pandit, K. N. (2009). A Muslim missionary in mediaeval Kashmir: Being the English translation of Tohfatu'l-ahbab. New Delhi: Voice of India.

[4] Nathan Haskell Dole (December 2003). The Bibliophile Dictionary: A Biographical Record of the Great Authors. The Minerva Group, Inc. pp. 577–. ISBN 978-1-4102-1040-1.

[5] Anthony a Wood (1967). Athen Oxonienses: An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops who Have Had Their Education in the University of Oxford. B. Franklin. p. 1620.

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