1649 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1649.

List of years in literature (table)

Events

  • January 1 – Local authorities raid the four remaining London theatres – the Salisbury Court, the Red Bull, the Cockpit and the Fortune – to suppress clandestine play-acting. The actors found are arrested – except for the members of the Red Bull company, who manage to escape.
  • February 9Eikon Basilike: the Pourtrature of His Sacred Majestie in His Solitudes and Sufferings, purporting to be the spiritual autobiography of King Charles I of England, is published ten days after his execution and becomes a popular success. John Gauden later claims to have written it.
  • March 24 – The authorities damage the Cockpit Theatre to inhibit continued attempts to use it for plays. (The building is not destroyed, however, and in 1660 it is fixed and used again, when drama resumes after the Restoration.)
  • April 23William Everard, a Digger, issues "The Declaration and Standard of the Levellers of England."
  • October – John Milton's Eikonoklastes: in Answer to a Book Intitl'd Eikon Basilike, a defence of the execution of Charles I, is published.
  • With the London theatres closed since 1642, the trend toward closet drama (often highly politicized) continues – and is accentuated by the January 30 execution of Charles I. In the play Newmarket Fair, Oliver Cromwell and other Parliamentary leaders commit suicide when they learn of the accession of Charles II, an event that actually still lies eleven years in the future.
  • Antoine Girard's poem Rome Ridicule starts a fashion for burlesque poetry.
  • Sir William Davenant is appointed treasurer of the colony of Virginia.

New books

Prose

  • George BatesElenchus Motuum Nuperorum in Anglia, or, A short historical account of the rise and progress of the late troubles in England. First part published and read by Pepys (13 February 1662/63)
  • Nicholas CulpepperA Physicall Directory, or, A Translation of the London Dispensatory[1]
  • René DescartesLes passions de l'âme (Passions of the Soul)
  • John DonneFifty Sermons
  • John Gauden (attributed) – Eikon Basilike: The Portraicture of His Sacred Majestie in His Solitudes and Sufferings
  • John Lilburne
    • England's New Chains Discovered
    • Legal Fundamental Liberties
  • John Milton
    • Eikonoklastes (a reply to Eikon Basilike)
    • The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates
  • Francisco PachecoArte de la pintura (The Art of Painting)
  • William PrynneA Legal Vindication of the Liberties of England against all Illegal Taxes and Pretended Acts of Parliament
  • Alexander RossThe Alcoran of Mahomet. First English translation, from the 1647 French of Andre du Ryer
  • "Salmasius" (Claude de Saumaise) – Defensio Regia
  • Jeremy TaylorApology for authorized and set forms of Liturgy against the Pretence of the Spirit
  • Edward WinslowThe Danger of Tolerating Levelers in a Civil State

Drama

  • Anonymous
    • A Bartholomew Fairing
    • The Disease of the House, or the State Mountebank Administering Physic to a Sick Parliament
    • The Famous Tragedy of Charles II, Basely Butchered
    • Newmarket Fair, or A Parliament Outcry
  • Anonymous ("T. B.") – The Rebellion of Naples, or the Tragedy of Massenello
  • William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle
  • Sir William DavenantLove and Honour
  • Francis QuarlesThe Virgin Widow
  • William Peaps – Love in Its Ecstasy, or the Large Prerogative
  • Christopher WaseThe Electra of Sophocles

Poetry

Births

Deaths

References

  1. Nagy, Doreen Evenden; Evenden, Doreen (1988). Popular Medicine in Seventeenth-century England. Popular Press. p. 114. ISBN 9780879724368.
  2. Roger Ariew; Dennis Des Chene; Douglas M. Jesseph; Tad M. Schmaltz; Theo Verbeek (6 April 2010). The A to Z of Descartes and Cartesian Philosophy. Scarecrow Press. p. 31. ISBN 978-1-4616-7185-5.
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