1632 in literature

Events

• February 11 – The Protestant pastor Nicolas Antoine is committed to an asylum after converting to Judaism.
• February 14 – Tempe Restored, a masque written by Aurelian Townshend and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed at Whitehall Palace.
• March – King Charles I of England and Queen Henrietta Maria visit the University of Cambridge. The students of Trinity College perform Thomas Randolph's The Jealous Lovers and Peter Hausted's The Rival Friends. The latter causes a theatrical riot and ensuing scandal.
• May – Tirso de Molina is appointed chronicler of the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy.
• Late – William Prynne's Histrio-mastix: The Players Scourge, or Actors Tragædie, an attack on the English Renaissance theatre is published in London.
• unknown date – The Second Folio of William Shakespeare's plays is printed in London by Thomas Cotes for Robert Allot and others. Among the prefatory matter is the first published poem by John Milton, printed anonymously, "An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramaticke Poet, W. Shakespeare".

  New books

Prose

• Diego Collado – Ars grammaticae Iaponicae linguae
• Phineas Fletcher – The Way to Blessedness and Joy in Tribulation
• Galileo Galilei – Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo
• Juan Pérez de Montalbán – Para todos
• William Prynne – Histriomastix: the Player's Scourge, or Actor's Tragedy
• Henry Reynolds – Mythomystes

  Drama

• William Alabaster – Roxana
• Richard Brome
• *The Weeding of Covent Garden
• *The Northern Lass
• Nathan Field and Philip Massinger – The Fatal Dowry
• Thomas Goffe – The Courageous Turk
• Thomas Heywood – The Iron Age, Part 1 and 2
• Ben Jonson – The Magnetic Lady
• John Lyly – Six Court Comedies, containing Campaspe, Endymion, Gallathea, Midas, Mother Bombie, and Sapho and Phao
• Jean Mairet – Les Galanteries du duc d'Ossonne
• Philip Massinger – The City Madam
• *The Maid of Honour published
• Thomas Randolph -The Jealous Lovers
• *The Muses' Looking-Glass
• William Rowley – A New Wonder, a Woman Never Vexed published
• James Shirley
• *The Ball
• *The Changes, or Love in a Maze
• *Hyde Park
• John Tatham – Love Crowns the End
• Aurelian Townshend – Tempe Restored

  Poetry

Births

• January 1 – Katherine Philips, née Fowler, Anglo-Welsh poet, translator and woman of letters
• January 29 – Johann Georg Graevius, German classicist
• March 4 – Lancelot Addison, English author and father of Joseph Addison
• June 10 – Esprit Fléchier, French historian and bishop
• August 29 – John Locke, English philosopher
• November 23 – Jean Mabillon, French palaeographer
• November 24 – Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher
• December 17 – Anthony Wood, English antiquary
• Unknown date
• *Francis Kirkman, English bibliophile
• *Rahman Baba, Indian Pashto poet

  Deaths

• February 23 – Giambattista Basile, Neapolitan poet and fairy-tale collector
• April 20 – Nicolas Antoine, French theologian
• May 5 – Luís de Sousa, Portuguese religious writer
• August 25 – Thomas Dekker, English dramatist
• By October – Edward Blount, English publisher
• Unknown dates
• *Aharon Ibn Hayyim, Moroccan Talmudic commentator
• *Alexandre Hardy, French dramatist
• *George Percy, English explorer and diarist
• *John Webster, English dramatist