1635 in literature

Events

• February 22 – In Paris, the Académie française is founded.
• May 6 – The King's Men perform Othello at the Blackfriars Theatre in London.
• July 16 – Birth of René Descartes' daughter, Francine, at Deventer.
• August 23 – A few days before his death, beset by family troubles, Lope de Vega writes his last poems.
• Ottoman Turkish poet Nef'i is garroted in the grounds of the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul for his satirical verses.
• Wallachian statesman Udriște Năsturel pays lyrical tribute to Prince Matei Basarab, his brother-in-law. Though composed and published in Slavonic, this is the first blason in Romanian literature, and by some accounts the first-ever Romanian poem.

  New books

Prose

• Sir Kenelm Digby – A Conference with a Lady about choice of a Religion
• Thomas Heywood – The Hierarchy of the Blessed Angels
• Tirso de Molina – Deleitar aprovechando
• John Selden – Mare Clausum

  Drama

• Francis Bristowe – King Free-Will
• Richard Brome – The Sparagus Garden
• Pierre Corneille – Médée
• William Davenant
• *News from Plymouth
• *The Platonick Lovers
• *The Temple of Love
• Pedro Calderón de la Barca – Life is a Dream
• Isaac de Benserade – Cléopâtre
• Henry Glapthorne
• *The Hollander
• *The Lady Mother
• Richard Lovelace – The Scholars
• Jean Mairet – Le Marc-Antoine, ou la Cléopâtre
• Thomas Nabbes – Hannibal and Scipio
• Jean Rotrou – La Bague de l'oubli
• Joseph Rutter – The Shepherd's Holiday performed at Court and published
• James Shirley – The Coronation, The Lady of Pleasure performed; The Traitor published

  Poetry

Births

• January 13 – Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian
• February 1 – Marquard Gude, German classicist and archeologist
• February 21 – Thomas Flatman, English poet and miniaturist
• June 3 – Philippe Quinault, French dramatist and librettist
• September 20 – Thomas Sprat, English theologian and bishop

  Deaths

• March – Thomas Randolph, English poet and dramatist
• April 7 – Leonard Digges, English poet
• April 25 – Alessandro Tassoni, Italian poet
• July 28 – Richard Corbet, English poet and bishop
• August – Richard Whitbourne, English Newfoundland colonist and writer
• August 27 – Lope de Vega, Spanish dramatist and poet
• October 18 – Jean de Schelandre, French poet
• November 8 – Aodh Buidhe Mac an Bhaird, Irish poet, historian and friar
• November 25 – Dr John Hall, English medical writer and son-in-law of William Shakespeare