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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of literature during 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''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1655 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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