This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1657.
Events January – Madame de la Fayette returns to Paris, where she is introduced to, and becomes friends with, Madame de Sévigné. March 2 – The Great Fire of Meireki in Edo, Japan, burns down the city's theatres, forcing actors to move to Osaka.
New books Prose "William Allen" – Killing No Murder (variously attributed to Colonel Silius Titus, Edward Sexby or William Allen, an English Republican; Sexby admits authorship under duress) Cave Beck – The Universal Character Theodore Haak (translator) – The Dutch Annotations Upon the Whole Bible (original 1637)A. G. Keller, "Haak, Theodore (1605–1690)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, OUP 2004) Retrieved 25 July 2017 Li Yu (probable author) – The Carnal Prayer Mat (published 1693) Richard Ligon – A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes Jeremy Taylor – Discourse of the Nature, Offices and Measures of Friendship Brian Walton, Bishop of Chester – Polyglot Bible Baltasar Gracián – El criticón (third part) François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac – Pratique du théâtre Cyrano de Bergerac (posthumous) – L'Autre Monde: ou les États et Empires de la Lune (Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon) Christiaan Huygens – De ratiociniis in ludo aleae Nihon Ōdai Ichiran (日本王代一覧, Table of the Rulers of Japan) Paul Scarron – Roman comique (Comic romance, publication concluded)
Children Les Jeux et plaisirs de l'enfanceChildren's Book Gallery Retrieved 11 April 2016.
Drama Anonymous – Lust's Dominion (published, falsely attributed in some impressions to Marlowe; probably by Dekker and others, written c.1600) Richard Brome – The Queen's Exchange (published) Sir Aston Cockayne – The Obstinate Lady (published) Lodowick Carlell The Fool Would be a Favorite, or The Discreet Lover (published) The Tragedy of Osmond the Great Turk, or the Noble Servant (published) George Gerbier d'Ouvilly – The False Favourite Disgraced, and the Reward of Loyalty (published) Franciscus van den Enden – Philedonius Andreas Gryphius – Katharina von Georgien Thomas Jordan – Fancy's Festivals (masque) (published) Thomas Middleton (died 1627) No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's (published) Two New Plays; first publication of Women Beware Women and More Dissemblers Besides Women
Poetry William Davenant – Poems on Several Occasions Angelus Silesius – Heilige Seelenlust (collection of hymns)
Births February 11 – Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle French author (died 1757) March 24 – Arai Hakuseki, Japanese scholar-bureaucrat and writer (died 1725) November 26 – William Derham, English natural philosopher and cleric (died 1735) unknown date – Matthew Tindal, English deist writer (died 1733)
Deaths March 7 – Hayashi Razan (林羅山), Japanese philosopher (born 1583) April ? – Richard Lovelace, English Cavalier poet (born 1617) August 29 – John Lilburne, English writer and agitator (born c. 1614) November 18 – Luke Wadding, Irish historian (born 1588) November 19 – Théodore Tronchin, Swiss theologian (born 1582) unknown dates Junije Palmotić, Ragusan (Dubrovnik) dramatist and poet (born c. 1606) Thomas Tuke, English controversialist and cleric (born c. 1580) probable – Thomas Bayly, English religious controversialist (born early 17th century)
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