1655 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1655.

Events

February 24 - English playwright Thomas Porter abducts his future bride Anne Blount.
March 26 - Thomas Porter kills a soldier named Thomas Salkeld in Covent Garden, probably in a duel, is consequently tried for murder, pleads guilty to manslaughter, is allowed benefit of clergy, and is sentenced to be burned in the hand.
May–October - Church of England clergyman Jeremy Taylor is imprisoned at Chepstow Castle for an injudicious preface to his popular manual of devotion, Golden Grove; or a Manuall of daily prayers and letanies, published this year.
August 6 - The Blackfriars Theatre in London is demolished.
October 29 - To celebrate Lord Mayor's Day, Edmund Gayton's pageant Charity Triumphant or the Virgin Show is staged in London; it is the first City pageant in fifteen years.
Thomas Stanley begins his History of Philosophy.

John Bramhall - Defense of True Liberty; Bramhall, an Anglican divine, begins a correspondence of treatises with Thomas Hobbes
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle - The World's Olio
Thomas Fuller - The Church History of Britain
John Heydon - Eugenius Theodidacticus
Michel Millot - L'Escole des filles
William Prynne - A New Discovery of Free-State Tyranny
Sir William Sales - Theophania
John Wallis - Elenchus geomeiriae Hobbianae, an attack on the work of Thomas Hobbes
Izaak Walton - The Compleat Angler, second edition
Baltasar Gracián - El comulgatorio
Francisco de Quevedo - Política de Dios y gobierno de Cristo (second part)
Diego Saavedra Fajardo - Juicio de artes y ciencias

Anonymous - The Gossips' Brawl, or the Women Wear the Breeches
Antony Brewer - The Lovesick King
Lodowick Carlell - The Passionate Lovers, Parts 1 and 2
Robert Daborne - The Poor Man's Comfort
Robert Davenport - King John and Matilda
Thomas Heywood & William Rowley - Fortune by Land and Sea
Sir William Lower - Polyeuctes, or the Martyr
Philip Massinger - Three New Plays, a collection that included The Guardian, The Bashful Lover, and (with John Fletcher) A Very Woman
William Rider - The Twins
James Shirley - The Gentleman of Venice and The Politician
Jeremy Taylor - Golden Grove; or a Manuall of daily prayers and letanies . .

January 1 – Christian Thomasius, German philosopher (died 1728)
November (approximate date) – Jacob Tonson, English bookseller and publisher (died 1736)

February 25 – Daniel Heinsius, Dutch poet (born 1580)
July 28 – Cyrano de Bergerac, French dramatist (born 1619)
September 7 – François Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist (born c. 1601)
October 24 – Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher (born 1592)
Probable year of death – John Reynolds, English poet, story-writer and pamphleteer (born c. 1588)