# 1659 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1659.

## Events

* January 27 – The poet Andrew Marvell is elected a member of Parliament for Kingston upon Hull in England's Third Protectorate Parliament.
* August – William Davenant is briefly imprisoned for his part in George Booth's Cheshire uprising in favor of restoring the English Monarchy.
* unknown dates
** Méric Casaubon edits John Dee's journal of angel magic.
** The Icelandic pastor Jón Magnússon completes his Píslarsaga (Passion Saga, or Story of My Sufferings).

## New books
### Prose

* Richard Baxter – The Holy Commonwealth
* Méric Casaubon (ed.) – A True & Faithful Relation of What passed for many Yeers between Dr. John Dee (A Mathematician of Great Fame in Q. Eliz. and King James their Reignes) and some spirits
* Thomas Hobbes – De Homine
* Christiaan Huygens – Systema Saturnium
* Ninon de l'Enclos – La Coquette vengée (The Flirt Avenged)
* Richard Lovelace – Lucasta (posthumous)
* William Prynne – Parliamentary Writs (further parts in 1660, 1662 and 1664)
* 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... (also The Rushworth Papers)
* Anna Maria van Schurman – The Learned Maid, or Whether a Maid May Be a Scholar? (English version of 1638 Latin original)
* 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 (published six decades after its premiere)
* Juan Bautista Diamante – El honrador de su padre
* 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
* Joost van den Vondel – Jephta

### Poetry

* William Chamberlayne – Pharonnida: A heroick poem
* Luis de Ulloa Pereira – Versos

## Births

* January 1 – Humphrey Hody, English theologian and archdeacon (died 1707)
* March – Margrethe Lasson, Danish novelist (died 1738)
* March 25 – John Asgill, English pamphleteer (died 1738)
* March 26 – William Wollaston, English philosopher, classicist and cleric (died 1724)
* April 29 – Sophia Elisabet Brenner, Swedish poet and writer (died 1730)
* unknown dates
** Thomas Creech, English classicist and translator (died 1700)
** Kata Szidónia Petrőczy, Hungarian poet (died 1708)

## Deaths

* January 7 – Laurenz Forer, Swiss theologian and controversialist writing in Latin and German (born 1580)
* January 31 – János Apáczai Csere, Hungarian linguist, mathematician and encyclopedist (born 1625)
* February 4 – Francis Osborne, English essayist (born 1593)
* April 15 – Simon Dach, German poet and hymnist (born 1605)
* June 3 – Morgan Llwyd, Welsh preacher, poet and writer (born 1619)
* September 22 – Thomas Morton, English polemicist and bishop (born 1564)
* October 27 – Giovanni Francesco Busenello, Italian poet and librettist (born 1598)