This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1654.
Events
July – Lady Dorothy Osborne plays the leading role in a country-house staging of Sir William Berkeley's tragicomedyThe Lost Lady. While the London theatres remain closed, amateur theatricals continue at private houses in England. Like performances of courtly masques before 1642, many of these performances feature women, foreshadowing the acceptance of professional women performers in the early Restoration era.[1]