1633 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1633.

Events

May 21 – Ben Jonson's masque The King's Entertainment at Welbeck is performed.
October 18 – King Charles I of England reissues the Declaration of Sports, originally published by his father, King James I in 1617, listing sports and recreations permitted on Sundays and holy days.
November 17 – King Charles I of England and Queen Henrietta Maria watch the King's Men perform Shakespeare's Richard III on the Queen's birthday at St James's Palace.
November 26 – The King and Queen watch The Taming of the Shrew at St. James's Palace.
Queen Henrietta's Men have stage success with a revival of Marlowe's The Jew of Malta at the Cockpit Theatre, with new prologues and epilogues by Thomas Heywood and Richard Perkins in the title role. Its first known publication takes place this year in London, as The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta, some forty years after its first performance.
In view of Galileo's condemnation by the Catholic Church, René Descartes abandons plans to publish Treatise on the World, his work of the past four years.

William Alabaster – Ecce sponsus venit
"Henry van Etten" – Mathematical Recreations
Fulke Greville – Certain Learned and Elegant Works
Thomas James – The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James
Thomas Stafford – ''Pacata Hibernia: Ireland appeased and reduced, or, An historie of the late warres of Ireland, especially within the province of Mounster, under the government of Sir George Carew, knight''

Abraham Cowley – Poetical Blossoms
John Donne – Poems, by J.D., the first collected edition
Phineas Fletcher – The Purple Island, or the Isle of Man
George Herbert – The Temple: Sacred poems and private ejaculations, the first collected edition