1611 in literature

1611 in literature

The year 1611 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

*January 1 - "Oberon, the Faery Prince", a masque written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed at Whitehall Palace.
*February 3 - "Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly", another Jonson/Jones masque, is staged at Whitehall.
*November 1 - The King's Men perform "The Tempest" at Whitehall Palace.
*November 5 - The King's Men perform "The Winter's Tale" at Whitehall Palace.
*December 26 - The King's Men return to Court with Beaumont and Fletcher's "A King and No King"
*December 27 - Queen Anne's Men act one of their most popular plays, "Greene's Tu Quoque".
*Juan Ruiz de Alarcón returns to Spain from Mexico.

New books

*Thomas Coryat - "Coryat's Crudities hastily gobbled up in Five Months Travels in France, Italy, &c"
*John Donne - "An Anatomy of the World"
*King James Version of the Bible
*Samuel Rowlands - "The Knave of Clubs"
*John Speed:
**"The History of Great Britain"
**"The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain" (map atlas)

New drama

*Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher - "A King and No King"
*George Chapman - "May Day" published
*John Cooke (?) - "Greene's Tu Quoque"
*Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton - "The Roaring Girl" published
*Thomas Dekker - "If This Be Not a Good Play, the Devil Is In It"
*Thomas Heywood - "The Golden Age" published
*Ben Jonson - "Oberon, the Faery Prince"
** - "Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly"
*Anthony Munday - "Chryso-Thriambos"
*Thomas Middleton (attributed to) - "The Second Maiden's Tragedy"
*William Shakespeare - "The Tempest" (consensus date)
*Cyril Tourneur - "The Atheist's Tragedy" published

Poetry

*Richard Braithwaite - "The Golden Fleece"
*Emilia Lanier - "Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum"

Births

*September 1 - William Cartwright, dramatist (died 1643)
*October 26 - Antonio Coello, dramatist and poet (died 1652)
*"date unknown" - Richard Alleine, religious writer (died 1681)
*"date unknown" - Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy, writer on art (died 1665)
*"date unknown" - Thomas Urquhart, translator (died c1660)
*"probable" - Jean François Sarrazin, satirist (died 1654)

Deaths

*June 8 - Jean Bertaut, poet (born 1552)
*September 22 - Pedro de Ribadeneira, ecclesiastical historian (born 1527)
*"date unknown" - Benet Canfield, mystical writer (born 1562)
*"date unknown" - Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, historian (born 1563)
*"date unknown" - Martin Ruland the younger, alchemist and editor of his father's writings


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