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The year 1632 in literature involved some significant events.
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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
- John Tatham - Love Crowns the End
- Aurelian Townshend - Tempe Restored (masque)
Poetry
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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