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The year 1632 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

• On February 14, Tempe Restored, a masque written by Aurelian Townshend and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed at Whitehall Palace.
• May - Tirso de Molina is appointed chronicler of the Order of Mercy.
• Death of Marta de Nevares, mistress of Lope de Vega.
• King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria visit Cambridge University in March. The students of Trinity College perform Randolph's The Jealous Lovers and Hausted's The Rival Friends, the latter causing a theatrical riot and subsequent scandal.

New books

• Phineas Fletcher - The Way to Blessedness and Joy in Tribulation
• Galileo Galilei - Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo (Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems)
• John Lyly - Six Court Comedies (published posthumously by Edward Blount), containing Campaspe, Endymion, Gallathea, Midas, Mother Bombie, and Sapho and Phao
• Juan Pérez de Montalbán - Para todos
• Henry Reynolds - Mythomystes
• William Shakespeare - the Second Folio of the plays

New drama

• Anonymous - The Costly Whore
• William Alabaster - Roxana (Latin play, first performed during the 1590s) published
• Richard Brome - The Weeding of Covent Garden performed
  • The Northern Lass published
• Nathan Field & Philip Massinger - The Fatal Dowry published
• Thomas Goffe - The Courageous Turk published
• Robert Gomersal - Lodovick Sforza, Duke of Milan published
• Peter Hausted - The Rival Friends
• Thomas Heywood - The Iron Age, Part 1 and 2 published
• Ben Jonson - The Magnetic Lady
• Jean Mairet - Les Galanteries du duc d'Ossonne
• Philip Massinger - The City Madam performed
  • The Maid of Honour published
• Thomas Randolph -The Jealous Lovers
  • The Muses' Looking-Glass
• William Rowley (and others?) - A New Wonder, a Woman Never Vexed published
• James Shirley - The Ball
  • The Changes, or Love in a Maze
  • Hyde Park
• John Tatham - Love Crowns the End
• Aurelian Townshend - Tempe Restored (masque)

Poetry

• John Milton - L'Allegro

Births

• January 29 - Johann Georg Graevius, classical scholar (died 1730)
• June 10 - Esprit Fléchier, historian (died 1710)
• August 29 - John Locke, philosopher (died 1704)
• November 23 - Jean Mabillon, palaeographer (died 1707)
• November 24 - Baruch Spinoza, philosopher (died 1677)
• December 17 - Anthony Wood, antiquarian writer (died 1695)
• date unknown - Lancelot Addison, general author and father of Joseph Addison (died 1703)

Deaths

• February 23 - Giambattista Basile, poet and collector of fairy tales (born c.1570)
• May 5 - Luís de Sousa, religious writer (born 1555)
• August 25 - Thomas Dekker, dramatist (born c.1572)
• date unknown - Alexandre Hardy, dramatist (born c.1571)

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