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The year 1646 in literature involved some significant events.

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Events

  • John Lilburne is placed in the Tower of London for denouncing his former commander the Earl of Manchester as a traitor.
  • Jacqueline Pascal is converted to Jansenism by her brother, Blaise Pascal.
  • The London theatres officially remain closed through the middle 1640s. Yet on March 24, the King's Men petition Parliament for three and a half years' back pay. Unfortunately, no details about their activities in these years survive.
  • Martin Llewellyn's drama The King Found at Southwell is performed at Oxford on May 5; it is the last stage piece presented in the city before its surrender to Parliamentary forces in the English Civil War, June 22-4.

New books

  • Anonymous (John Lilburne?) - London's Liberty in Chains Discovered
  • Anonymous (John Lilburne?) - Vox Plebis, or the People's Outcry
  • Sir Thomas Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Vulgar Errors
  • Thomas Fuller - Andronicus or the Unfortunate Politician
  • Sir John Suckling - An Account of Religion by Reason published

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