1641 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1641. Events March 12 – Abraham Cowley's play The Guardian is acted at Trinity College, Cambridge, in the presence of Prince Charles (later King Charles II). Spring – Pierre Corneille marries Marie de Lampérière. c. May – William Davenant is convicted of high treason for his part in the First Army Plot in England. August 5 – Because of an increase in cases of plague, John Lowin delivers warrants to London theatres ordering them to close. c. December – Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, becomes an advisor to King Charles I of England. New books Prose George Abbot – Vindiciae Sabbathi Moses Amyraut – De l'elevation de la foy et de l'abaissement de la raison en la creance des mysteres de la religion Richard Baker – Apologie for Laymen's Writing in Divinity, with a Short Meditation upon the Fall of Lucifer Sir Edward Coke – The Complete Copyholder Luís Vélez de Guevara – William Habington – Observations upon History Joseph Hall – Episcopacy by Divine Right Samuel Hartlib (nominal author, really by Gabriel Plattes) – A Description of the Famous Kingdom of Macaria Thomas Heywood – The Life of Merlin surnamed Ambrosius Thomas Hobbes – De Cive Sir Francis Kynaston – Leoline and Sydanis John Milton – Of Reformation Sir Robert Naunton (died 1635) – Fragmenta Regalia, or Observations on the late Queen Elizabeth, her Times and Favourites Mother Shipton (died 1561, attributed) – The prophesie of Mother Shipton in the raigne of King Henry the eighth Sir Henry Spelman – De Sepultura Heinrich Stahl – Leyen Spiegel John Taylor – John Taylors Last Voyage and Adventure Nicolaes Tulp – Observationes Medicae John Wilkins – Mercury, or The Secret and Swift Messenger Francisco de Quevedo – Providencia de Dios Juan Eusebio Nieremberg – De la hermosura de Dios y su amabilidad, por las infinitas perfecciones del ser divino Luis Vélez de Guevara – El diablo Cojuelo