1659 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1659.Events
Prose
- Richard Baxter – The Holy Commonwealth
- Méric Casaubon – A True & Faithful Relation of What passed for many Yeers between Dr. John Dee and some spirits
- Thomas Hobbes – De Homine
- Christiaan Huygens – Systema Saturnium
- Ninon de l'Enclos – La Coquette vengée
- Richard Lovelace – Lucasta
- William Prynne – Parliamentary Writs
- Johann Heinrich Rahn – Teutsche Algebra
- Péter Révay – De monarchia et sacra corona regni hungariae centuriae septem
- John Rushworth – Historical Collections of Private Passages of State...
- Anna Maria van Schurman – The Learned Maid, or Whether a Maid May Be a Scholar?
- Jeremy Taylor – Discourse on the Nature, Offices and Measures of Friendship
Drama
- Anonymous – The London Chanticleers
- Richard Brome – Five New Plays, including The English Moor, The Lovesick Court, The Weeding of Covent Garden, The New Academy, and The Queen and Concubine
- Joan Leonardsz Blasius – De Edelmoedige Vijanden
- Sir William Davenant – The History of Sir Francis Drake
- John Day and Henry Chettle – The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green
- Richard Flecknoe – The Marriage of Oceanus and Britannia
- Molière – Les Précieuses ridicules
- Walter Montague – The Shepherd's Paradise
- Agustín Moreto – No puede ser...
- James Shirley
- *The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses
- *Honoria and Mammon
- Juan Bautista Diamante – El honrador de su padre
Poetry
- William Chamberlayne –
- Luis de Ulloa Pereira – Versos
Births
- January 1 – Humphrey Hody, English theologian and archdeacon
- March – Margrethe Lasson, Danish novelist
- March 25 – John Asgill, English pamphleteer
- March 26 – William Wollaston, English philosopher, classicist and cleric
- April 29 – Sophia Elisabet Brenner, Swedish poet and writer
- unknown dates
- *Thomas Creech, English classicist and translator
- *Kata Szidónia Petrőczy, Hungarian poet
Deaths
- January 7 – Laurenz Forer, Swiss theologian and controversialist writing in Latin and German
- January 31 – János Apáczai Csere, Hungarian linguist, mathematician and encyclopedist
- February 4 – Francis Osborne, English essayist
- April 15 – Simon Dach, German poet and hymnist
- June 3 – Morgan Llwyd, Welsh preacher, poet and writer
- September 22 – Thomas Morton, English polemicist and bishop
- October 27 – Giovanni Francesco Busenello, Italian poet and librettist
