1628 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1628.

Events

• July 29 (Tuesday) – The King's Men perform Henry VIII at the Globe Theatre, London. George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham is in the audience, but leaves after watching the play's Duke of Buckingham beheaded. The character is based on the historical Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, who had been executed for treason in 1521. Villiers is assassinated less than a month later.
• Ten-year-old Abraham Cowley produces his Tragicall History of Piramus and Thisbe.
• Construction of St John's College Old Library, Cambridge, is completed after five years.

New books

Prose

• Robert Arnauld d'Andilly – '
• John Clavell – A Recantation of an Ill Led Life
• Sir John Coke – The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England, or, a Commentary upon Littleton
• Thomas Dekker – Wars, Wars, Wars
• John Earle, Bishop of Salisbury – Microcosmographie
• Nicolas des Escuteaux – '
• William Harvey – Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus
• Thomas Hobbes – translation of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War
• Samuel Przypkowski – '
• Tobias Venner – The baths of Bathe
• George Wither – Britain's Remembrancer