1646 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1646. Events March 24 – The King's Men petition Parliament for three-and-a-half years' back pay, even though the London theatres officially remained closed through the middle 1640s. No details of their activities in these years survive. May 5 – Martin Llewellyn's drama The King Found at Southwell is performed at Oxford; it is the last stage piece presented in the city before its surrender to Parliamentary forces in the English Civil War on June 22–24. July – John Lilburne is placed in the Tower of London for denouncing his former commander the Earl of Manchester as a traitor. September 6 – The Biblioteca Palafoxiana is established in Puebla, Mexico, through the donation of books by Bishop Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, perhaps the earliest public library in the American colonies. unknown dates Henry Burkhead's closet drama Cola's Fury, or Lirenda's Misery, based on the Irish Rebellion of 1641 ("Lirenda" is an anagram), is published in Kilkenny (dated 1645). Burkhead presents the historical persons involved under pseudonyms: among others, the Earl of Ormonde as "Osiris" and Sir John Borlase as "Berosus". Jacqueline Pascal is converted to Jansenism, under the influence of her brother, Blaise Pascal. New books Prose Anonymous (John Lilburne?) – London's Liberty in Chains Discovered Anonymous (John Lilburne?) – Vox Plebis, or the People's Outcry Sir Thomas Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Vulgar Errors Thomas Fuller – Andronicus or the Unfortunate Politician Sir John Suckling – An Account of Religion by Reason published Vida y hechos de Estebanillo González Baltasar Gracián – El discreto Diego de Saavedra Fajardo – Corona gótica, castellana y austríaca