1653 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1653.

Events

March 26 – James Shirley's masque Cupid and Death is performed before the Portuguese ambassador in London.^[1]
Pierre Corneille retires from the theatre for six years.
John Evelyn buys Sayes Court, Deptford.
The actor Robert Cox is arrested at the Red Bull Theatre in London for performing a "droll" deemed to be a play (prohibited during the English Interregnum).
A law in Holland prohibits promulgation of Socinianism or other forms of nontrinitarianism.

Ann Collins – Divine Songs and Meditations
Sir Percy Herbert – The Princess Cloria, Parts 1 and 2
Edward Johnson – A History of New England
Jeremy Taylor – Twenty-five Sermons
Sir Thomas Urquhart
- First English translation of Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel, Books I and II
- Logopandecteision
Izaak Walton -The Compleat Angler
Arthur Wilson – The History of Great Britain, being the Life and Reign of King James I
Baltasar Gracián – El criticón (second part)
Juan de Zabaleta – Errores celebrados
Blaise Pascal – Traité du triangle arithmétique

Anonymous – The Ghost, or the Woman Wears the Breeches published
Richard Brome – Five New Plays, a collection of his dramas including A Mad Couple Well-Match'd, The Novella, The Court Beggar, The City Wit, and The Damoiselle
John Ford (attributed to) – The Queen published
William Heminges – The Fatal Contract published
Henry Killigrew – Pallantus and Eudora published (Killigrew's revision of his own The Conspiracy, 1638)
Philippe Quinault – Les Rivales
Lope de Vega – La discreta enamorada
Agustín Moreto – El lindo don Diego
Paul Scarron – Don Japhel d'Arménie

January 13 – Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (died 1705)
March 8 – Goodwin Wharton, English autobiographer and politician (died 1704)
Unknown date – Chikamatsu Monzaemon (近松門左衛門), Japanese dramatist (died 1725)
Probable year of birth
- Nathaniel Lee, English dramatist (died 1692)
- Matthew Tindal, English deist writer (died 1733)

May 26 – Robert Filmer, English political theorist (born 1558)
July 10 – Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (born 1600)
September 3 – Claudius Salmasius, French classical scholar (born 1588)
September 23 – Jacques Goar, French Hellenist (born 1601)
Unknown dates
- Zachary Boyd, Scottish poet (born 1585)
- Piaras Feiritéar, Irish-language poet and rebel (hanged, born c. 1600)
- John Taylor, English poet (born 1578)

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