1635 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1635.

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.

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 (masque)
 * Pedro Calderón de la Barca – Life is a Dream (La vida es sueño)
 * Isaac de Benserade – Cléopâtre
 * Henry Glapthorne
 * The Hollander
 * The Lady Mother (attr.)
 * 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
See 1635 in poetry

Births

 * January 13 – Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (died 1706)
 * February 1 – Marquard Gude, German classicist and archeologist (died 1689)
 * February 21 – Thomas Flatman, English poet and miniaturist (died 1688)
 * June 3 – Philippe Quinault, French dramatist and librettist (died 1688)
 * September 20 (baptism) – Thomas Sprat, English theologian and bishop (died 1713)

Deaths

 * March – Thomas Randolph, English poet and dramatist (born 1605)
 * April 7 – Leonard Digges, English poet (born 1588)
 * April 25 – Alessandro Tassoni, Italian poet (born 1565)
 * July 28 – Richard Corbet (Richard Corbett), English poet and bishop (born 1582)
 * August (burial) – Richard Whitbourne, English Newfoundland colonist and writer (born 1561)
 * August 27 – Lope de Vega, Spanish dramatist and poet (born 1562)
 * October 18 – Jean de Schelandre, French poet (born c. 1585)
 * November 8 – Aodh Buidhe Mac an Bhaird, Irish poet, historian and friar (born c. 1593)
 * November 25 – Dr John Hall, English medical writer and son-in-law of William Shakespeare (born 1575)