1637 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1637.

Events

January – Pierre Corneille's tragicomedy Le Cid first performed at the Théâtre du Marais in Paris. Based on Guillén de Castro's play Las mocedades del Cid, it is first published later in the year and sparks the debate of the Querelle du Cid at the Académie française over its failure to observe all the classical unities of drama and supposed lack of moral purpose, but proves popular with audiences.
January 24 – Hamlet is performed before King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria at Hampton Court Palace.
July 10 – Thomas Browne is registered as a physician, following which he settles in Norwich.
August 30 – The King's Men mount a production for the English Court of William Cartwright's The Royal Slave at Christ Church, Oxford. The company is paid an extra £30 "for their pains in studying and acting" the drama.
October 2 – The London theatres re-open, having been closed almost continuously since May 1636 because of a severe outbreak of bubonic plague.
December 11 – John Lilburne is arrested following his return from the Netherlands to England for printing and circulating Puritan books not licensed by the Stationers' Company.
unknown date – Willem Blaeu sets up Europe's largest printing house in Amsterdam, specializing in cartography.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca
*A secreto agravio, secreta venganza
*El mayor monstruo del mundo
*El médico de su honra
*El Tetrarca published
Georgios Chortatzis – Erofili published
Pierre Corneille – Le Cid
Isaac de Benserade
*La Mort d’Achille et la Dispute de ses armes
*Gustaphe ou l’Heureuse Ambition
*Iphis et Iante
John Fletcher and Philip Massinger – The Elder Brother published
François Tristan l'Hermite – Penthée
Thomas Heywood – The Royal King and the Loyal Subject published
John Milton – Comus published
Thomas Nabbes – Microcosmus, a Moral Masque
Thomas Neale – The Warde
Joseph Rutter – The Cid, Part 1 published
James Shirley – five plays published in five single-play quartos: The Example, The Gamester, Hyde Park, The Lady of Pleasure and The Young Admiral
Sir John Suckling – Aglaura
Joost van den Vondel – Gijsbrecht van Aemstel written
George Wilde – ''The Converted Robber''

William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling – Recreations of the Muses
James Day – A New Spring of Divine Poetry
Thomas Jordan – Poetical Varieties
Shackerley Marmion – Cupid and Psyche, a 2000-line translation and adaptation of The Golden Ass of Apuleius
Gabriel Bocángel – La lira de las musas
Miguel Dicastillo – Aula de Dios
Lope de Vega – La vega del Parnaso
Jorge Pinto de Morales – ''Maravillas del Parnaso y flor de los mejores romances graves, burlescos y satíricos''