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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1647.

Events

• Summer – Thomas Hobbes gives up his work as mathematics tutor to the future Charles II of England because of a serious illness. ^[1]
• October 6 – London authorities raid the Salisbury Court Theatre, breaking up an illicit performance of Beaumont and Fletcher's A King and No King .
• unknown date – Plagiarist Robert Baron publishes his Deorum Dona, a masque, and Gripus and Hegio, a pastoral, which draws heavily on the poems of Edmund Waller and John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi . The masque claims to have been performed before "Flaminius and Clorinda, King and Queen of Cyprus, at their regal palace in Nicosia," a fantasy with no relation to the actual history of Cyprus.

New books

Prose

• René Descartes – Les Principes de la philosophie (French version of original Latin)
• Antonio Enríquez Gómez – El siglo pitagórico. La vida de don Gregorio Guadaña
• Baltasar Gracián – Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia
• Johannes Hevelius – Selenographia
• John Lilburne – Rash Oaths
• John Lilly – Christian Astrology
• Thomas May – The History of the Parliament of England
• Adam Olearius – Beschreibung der muscowitischen und persischen Reise (Description of [his] Muscovite and Persian Journey)
• María de Zayas y Sotomayor – Desengaños amorosos. Parte segunda del sarao y entretenimiento honesto

Drama

• "Beaumont and Fletcher" – Comedies and Tragedies... (first folio collection of the plays of John Fletcher and his various collaborators)
• Antony Brewer – The Country Girl
• Marchamont Nedham (Mercurius Pragmaticus) – The Levellers Levelled, or the Independents' Conspiracy to Root Out Monarchy
• Jean Rotrou
  • Don Bertrand de Cabrère
  • Venceslas
• Samuel Sheppard – The Committee-Man Curried
• Johann Rist – Das friedewünschende Teutschland (Peace-loving Germany)
• Lope de Vega – Parte XXV de comedias

Poetry

• Abraham Cowley – The Mistress
• Henry More – Philosophical Poems
• Johan van Heemskerk – Batavische Arcadia

Births

• April 1 – John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet (died 1680)
• August 12 – Johann Heinrich Acker, German religious historian writing in Latin (died 1719)
• November 18 – Pierre Bayle French encyclopedist (died 1706)
• Unknown dates
  • Henry Aldrich, English theologian and philosopher (died 1710) ^[2]
  • Petter Dass, Norwegian poet (died 1707)
  • Glückel of Hameln, German diarist (died 1727)

Deaths

• January 29 – Francis Meres, English miscellanist and cleric (born 1565)
• April – Ephraim Pagit, English writer on comparative religion (born c. 1575)
• May 21 – Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch historian, poet and dramatist (born 1581) ^[3]
• June 12 – Thomas Farnaby, English classicist and cleric (born c. 1575)

References

1. Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800. Gale Research Company. 2008. p. 2. ISBN   978-0-7876-9904-8.
2. Humphreys, Maggie; Evans, Robert (1997). Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. A&C Black. p. 5. ISBN   9780720123302.
3. John Michael Montias (2002). Art at Auction in 17th Century Amsterdam. Amsterdam University Press. p. 217. ISBN   978-90-5356-591-9.