This article contains information about the literary events and publications of1629.

• January –Pedro Calderón de la Barca and his friends break into a convent in an attempt to seize Pedro de Villegas, who had stabbed Calderón's brother.
• April 6 –Tommaso Campanella is released from custody inRome, and gains the confidence ofPope Urban VIII.
• July –Richard James lendsOliver St John a manuscript tract on the bridling of parliaments which was written in 1612 by SirRobert Dudley, titularDuke of Northumberland. St John circulates it among parliamentary supporters, and James is arrested as a result.
• September –Pierre Corneille brings his first play,Mélite to a group of travelling actors.^[1]
• November 22 – TheKing's Men performOthello at theBlackfriars Theatre in London.
• unknown dates
  • The first known performance is given at theCorral de comedias de Almagro in Spain (rediscovered in the 1950s) by Juan Martinez's theatrical companyAutor.^[2]
  • Inigo Jones redesigns theCockpit-in-Court in London as a venue for stagingcourt masques.
  • In Japan, women'skabuki dance-drama is prohibited, and young men take over female roles. The prohibition would last until 1877.^[3]

• Balthazar Baro –Célinde, poème héroïque (prose work containing a poem at its core)
• Philipp Clüver (posthumous) –Introductio in Universam Geographiam (Introduction to Universal Geography)
• John Amos Comenius –Janua linguarum reserata
• Arthur Dee –Fasciculus Chemicus
• Robert Fludd –Medicina Catholica (Volume 1)
• Paul Laymann (attributed) –Processus juridicus contra sagas et vene fico
• Richard Sibbes –The Saint's Cordial

• Richard Brome
  • The Northern Lass
  • A Lovesick Maid (lost)
• Lodowick Carlell –The Deserving Favourite (published)
• William D'Avenant
  • The Just Italian (performed)
  • The Tragedy of Albovine (published)
• Alexandre Hardy –Coriolan (published)
• Ben Jonson –The New Inn
• Philip Massinger
  • The Picture (performed)
  • The Roman Actor (published)
• James Shirley –The Grateful Servant

• John Beaumont –Bosworth Field; with a taste of the variety of other Poems left by Sir John Beaumont
• John Taylor –Wit and Mirth

• January 2 –Christian Scriver, German devotional writer (died1693)
• April 14 –Christiaan Huygens, Dutch polymath (died1695)
• August 18 –Agneta Horn, Swedish memoirist (died1672)
• August 20 –Matthew Wren, English writer, cleric and politician (died1672)
• September 10 –John Heydon, EnglishRosicrucian and writer on the occult (died c. 1677)
• Unknown dates
  • Henry Muddiman, English journalist and publisher (died1692)
  • Roderick O Flaherty, Irish historian (died c. 1717)
• Probable year of birth –Hester Biddle (Esther Biddle), English Quaker writer (died1697)

• July 13 –Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Danish polymath (born1585)
• July 27 –Thomas Goffe, English dramatist (born1591)
• August –Thomas James, English librarian (born c. 1573)
• August 18 –Vendela Skytte, Swedish poet (born1608)
• November –Robert Hayman, English-born Newfoundland poet (born1574)
• Unknown date –John Speed, English historian and cartographer (born1542)

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