1635 in literature
# 1635 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1635.

## Events

* February 22 – In Paris, the Académie française is founded.
* May 6 – The King's Men perform Othello at the Blackfriars Theatre in London.
* July 16 – Birth of René Descartes' daughter, Francine, at Deventer.
* August 23 – A few days before his death, beset by family troubles, Lope de Vega writes his last poems.
* Ottoman Turkish poet Nef'i is garroted in the grounds of the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul for his satirical verses.
* Wallachian statesman Udriște Năsturel pays lyrical tribute to Prince Matei Basarab, his brother-in-law. Though composed and published in Slavonic, this is the first blason in Romanian literature, and by some accounts the first-ever Romanian poem.

## New books

### Prose

* Sir Kenelm Digby – A Conference with a Lady about choice of a Religion
* Thomas Heywood – The Hierarchy of the Blessed Angels
* Tirso de Molina – Deleitar aprovechando
* John Selden – Mare Clausum

### Drama

* Francis Bristowe – King Free-Will
* Richard Brome – The Sparagus Garden
* Pierre Corneille – Médée
* William Davenant
   * News from Plymouth
   * The Platonick Lovers
   * The Temple of Love (masque)
* Pedro Calderón de la Barca – Life is a Dream (La vida es sueño)
* Isaac de Benserade – Cléopâtre
* Henry Glapthorne
   * The Hollander
   * The Lady Mother (attr.)
* Richard Lovelace – The Scholars
* Jean Mairet – Le Marc-Antoine, ou la Cléopâtre
* Thomas Nabbes – Hannibal and Scipio
* Jean Rotrou – La Bague de l'oubli
* Joseph Rutter – The Shepherd's Holiday performed at Court and published
* James Shirley – The Coronation, The Lady of Pleasure performed; The Traitor published

### Poetry

See 1635 in poetry

## Births

* January 13 – Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (died 1706)
* February 1 – Marquard Gude, German classicist and archeologist (died 1689)
* February 21 – Thomas Flatman, English poet and miniaturist (died 1688)
* June 3 – Philippe Quinault, French dramatist and librettist (died 1688)
* September 20 (baptism) – Thomas Sprat, English theologian and bishop (died 1713)

## Deaths

* March – Thomas Randolph, English poet and dramatist (born 1605)
* April 7 – Leonard Digges, English poet (born 1588)
* April 25 – Alessandro Tassoni, Italian poet (born 1565)
* July 28 – Richard Corbet (Richard Corbett), English poet and bishop (born 1582)
* August (burial) – Richard Whitbourne, English Newfoundland colonist and writer (born 1561)
* August 27 – Lope de Vega, Spanish dramatist and poet (born 1562)
* October 18 – Jean de Schelandre, French poet (born c. 1585)
* November 8 – Aodh Buidhe Mac an Bhaird, Irish poet, historian and friar (born c. 1593)
* November 25 – Dr John Hall, English medical writer and son-in-law of William Shakespeare (born 1575)
