1643 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1643.
Events
- May/June – René Descartes, having had his philosophy condemned by the University of Utrecht, begins his long correspondence with Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia.
- June 16 – The Parliament of England issues the Licensing Order of 1643 to control the press – the action against which John Milton protests in his Areopagitica of the following year.
- August 1 – The first of Milton's divorce tracts is published, anonymously and unlicensed.
- unknown dates
- *Cardinal Mazarin opens the Bibliothèque Mazarine in Paris to scholars.
- *The medieval Icelandic manuscript Codex Regius comes to light, in the possession of Bishop Brynjólfur Sveinsson.
- *Miyamoto Musashi begins dictating The Book of Five Rings .
- *Francis Bacon's New Atlantis and Tommaso Campanella's Civitas Solis, The City of the Sun, are published together in a volume titled Mundus Alter et Idem – the first time, though not the last, that the two works will be bound together.
New books
Prose
- Sir Thomas Browne – Religio Medici
- Sir Kenelm Digby – Observations Upon Religio Medici
- Philip Hunton – A Treatise of Monarchie
- John Milton – Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce
- Roger Williams – A Key into the Language of America
- Pedro Agerre – ''Gero''
Drama
- Pierre Corneille
- *Le Menteur
- *Polyeucte
- Sir William Davenant – The Unfortunate Lovers published
- Claude de L'Estoile – La Belle Esclave
- Francisco de Quevedo
- *Entremés de las sombras
- *''La mujer de Peribáñez''
Poetry
- Ramillete gracioso
- Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant – ''Albion''
Births
- March 26 – Louis Moréri, French encyclopedist and priest
- September 18 – Gilbert Burnet, Scottish historian and bishop
- November 1 – John Strype, English historian, biographer and cleric
- November 16 – Jean Chardin, French travel writer
- unknown date – Thomas Rymer, English Historiographer Royal
Deaths
- February 9 – Sidney Godolphin, English poet
- April 4 – Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian
- April 12 – Nicolaus Hunnius, German theologian
- April 20 – Christoph Demantius, German poet and composer
- November 29 – William Cartwright, English poet, dramatist and cleric
- unknown dates
- *Abraham Azulai, Moroccan-born Kabbalistic author
- *Thomas Master, English poet, translator and cleric
- *Pedro de Oña, Chilean poet
- probable
- *Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, Irish chronicler
- *Henry Glapthorne, English dramatist