1631 in literature

This article is a summary of the literary events and publications of 1631. Events January 9 – Love's Triumph Through Callipolis, a masque written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones, is staged at Whitehall Palace. January 11 – The Master of the Revels in England refuses to license Philip Massinger's new play, Believe as You List, because of its seditious content; it is first performed in a revised version on May 7. February 5 – Puritan minister and theologian Roger Williams emigrates from England to Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. February 22 – Chloridia, the year's second Jonson/Jones masque, is performed. June 10 – The King's Men perform Pericles, Prince of Tyre (c.1607/8) at the Globe Theatre. The young Blaise Pascal moves with his family to Paris. Thomas Hobbes is employed as a tutor by the Cavendish family, to teach the future Earl of Devonshire. Publication of the "Wicked Bible" by Robert Barker and Martin Lucas, the royal printers in London, an edition of the King James Version of the Bible in which a typesetting erratum leaves the seventh of the Ten Commandments with the word not omitted from the sentence "Thou shalt not commit adultery". Copies are withdrawn and about a year later the publishers are called to the Star Chamber, fined £300 and have their licence to print revoked. New books Prose Johann Philipp Abelin – Arma Suecica, volume 1 Moses Amyraut – Traité des religions Collected works of Jacobus Arminius published posthumously in Frankfurt Robert Fludd – Medicina Catholica (Volume 2) Thomas Harriot – Artis analyticae praxis James Mabbe – Celestina, or the Tragicomedy of Calisto and Melibea, a 300-page closet drama or "novel in dialogue," translated from the Spanish-language original of Fernando de Rojas, La Celestina (1499) Wicked Bible, a reprint of the King James Bible notable for typographical errors William Oughtred – Clavis mathematicae