1647 in literature

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. 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