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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1644.

Events

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  • April 15 – The second Globe Theatre is demolished by the Puritan government to make room for housing.[1]
  • November 23 – The publication in London of Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England.[2]
  • December (end) – English Puritan controversialist Hezekiah Woodward is questioned for two days about "scandalous" pamphlets.[3]
  • The publication of The Bloody Tenet of Persecution marks the start of a major controversy between Roger Williams and John Cotton on religious tolerance in a Calvinist context. The controversy plays out through a series of works issued by both men in the coming years, through to Williams' The Bloody Tenet Yet More Bloody (1652).

New books

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Prose

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Drama

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Births

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Deaths

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References

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  1. ^ "The Old Globe Theater History and Timeline". Retrieved 2012-10-16.
  2. ^ a b Kekewich, Margaret (1994). Princes and peoples : France and British Isles, 1620-1714 : an anthology of primary sources. Manchester New York: Manchester University Press in association with the Open University. p. 2. ISBN 9780719045738.
  3. ^ Greengrass, M. (2004). "Woodward, Hezekiah (1591/2–1675)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29945. Retrieved 2013-10-25. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
  4. ^ Cogley, Richard (1999). John Eliot's mission to the Indians before King Philip's War. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. p. 271. ISBN 9780674475373.
  5. ^ Baigrie, Brian (1996). Picturing knowledge : historical and philosophical problems concerning the use of art in science. Toronto, Ont: University of Toronto Press. p. ix. ISBN 9780802074393.
  6. ^ Danilo Capecchi (11 May 2012). History of Virtual Work Laws: A History of Mechanics Prospective. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 481. ISBN 978-88-470-2056-6.
  7. ^ John Whenham (1982). Duet and Dialogue in the Age of Monteverdi. UMI Research Press. p. 279. ISBN 978-0-8357-1313-9.
  8. ^ Tom Cain, ed., The Poems of Mildmay Fane, Second Earl of Westmorland: from the Fulbeck, Harvard, and Westmorland Manuscripts, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2001.Page 27
  9. ^ Christopher Baker (2002). Absolutism and the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1720: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-313-30827-7.
  10. ^ The Encyclopedia Americana: A Universal Reference Library Comprising the Arts and Sciences ... Commerce, Etc. Scientific American Compiling Dpt. 1905. p. 129.
  11. ^ John Evelyn (2000). The Diary of John Evelyn: 1620-1649. Clarendon Press. p. 379.
  12. ^ Baker, Christopher (2002). Absolutism and the scientific revolution, 1600-1720 : a biographical dictionary. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press. p. 313. ISBN 9780313308277.