1619 in literature

1619 in literature

The year 1619 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

*Richard Burbage dies in March; his place as the star of the King's Men is filled by Joseph Taylor.
*René Descartes has a dream that helps him develop his ideas on analytical geometry.
*Ben Jonson becomes Poet Laureate.
*William Jaggard and Thomas Pavier publish the so-called False Folio of Shakespearean and pseudo-Shakespearean plays.

New books

*Johannes Valentinus Andreae - "Reipublicae Christianopolitanae descriptio"
*Philipp Clüver - "Sardinia et Corsica Antiqua"
** - "Siciliae Antique libri duo"
*Robert Fludd - "Utriusque Cosmi...Historia, Tomi Secundi" ("The History of the Two Worlds, Volume 2")
*Johannes Kepler - "Harmonices Mundi" (an attack on Fludd's Neoplatonist cosmology)
*John Pitseus - "De Illustribus Angliae scriptoribus"
*Paolo Sarpi - "History of the Council of Trent"
*John Taylor - "A Kicksey Winsey, or, A Lerry Come-Twang"

New drama

*Anonymous - "Two Wise Men and All the Rest Fools" published
*Beaumont and Fletcher - "A King and No King" published
** - "The Maid's Tragedy" published
*Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero - "De Klucht van de koe"; "Stommen ridder"
*John Fletcher - "The Humorous Lieutenant"
*Fletcher and Philip Massinger - "Sir John van Olden Barnavelt"
*Lope de Vega - "Fuente Ovejuna" published
*Thomas Middleton - "The Masque of Heroes"

Poetry

*George Wither - "Fidelia"

Births

*March 6 - Cyrano de Bergerac, soldier and poet (d. 1655)
*November 7 - Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, biographer (d. 1692)
*December 28 - Antoine Furetière, satirist (d. 1688)

Deaths

*February 19 - Lucilio Vanini, philosopher (b. 1585)
*March 13 - Richard Burbage, actor and theatre proprietor (born c1567)
*October 14 - Samuel Daniel, Poet Laureate and historian (born 1562)


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