1611 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1611.
Events
- January 1 â Oberon, the Faery Prince, a masque written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed at Whitehall Palace.
- February 3 â Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly, another Jonson/Jones masque, is also staged at Whitehall.
- May 2 â The Authorized King James Version of the Bible appears,[1] printed in London by Robert Barker.
- May 11 â The first known performance of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, probably new this year, is given by the King's Men at the Globe Theatre in London.[2]
- November 1 â The King's Men give perhaps the first performance of The Tempest, Shakespeare's last solo play, at Whitehall Palace.
- November 5 â The King's Men perform The Winter's Tale at Whitehall Palace.
- December 26 â The King's Men return to Court with Beaumont and Fletcher's A King and No King.
- December 27 â Queen Anne's Men act one of their most popular plays, Greene's Tu Quoque (The City Gallant; probably written by John Cooke) at Court, having previously performed it at the Red Bull Theatre.[3]
- unknown dates
- The last known traditional performance of an English mystery play is given at Kendal.
- Dramatist Juan Ruiz de Alarcón returns to Spain from Mexico.
New books
Prose
- The Holy Bible, Authorized King James Version
- Jacques Bongars â Gesta Dei per Francos
- Thomas Coryat â Coryat's Crudities hastily gobbled up in Five Months Travels in France, Italy, &c
- Randle Cotgrave â A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues
- John Donne â An Anatomy of the World
- Giolla Brighde à hEoghusa (Bonaventura à hEoghusa or O'Hussey) â An Teagasc Criosdaidhe
- Samuel Rowlands â The Knave of Clubs
- John Speed:
- The Historie of Great Britaine
- The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine (map atlas)
Drama
- Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher â A King and No King
- George Chapman â May Day (published)
- John Cooke (?) â Greene's Tu Quoque
- Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton â The Roaring Girl (published)
- Thomas Dekker â If This Be Not a Good Play, the Devil Is In It
- Thomas Heywood â The Golden Age (published)
- Ben Jonson
- Johannes Messenius â Disa
- Thomas Middleton (attributed to) â The Second Maiden's Tragedy
- Anthony Munday â Chryso-Thriambos
- William Shakespeare
- The Winter's Tale (probable date)
- The Tempest (consensus date)[5]
- Cyril Tourneur â The Atheist's Tragedy (published)[1]
Poetry
See also 1611 in poetry
- Richard Braithwaite â The Golden Fleece
- John Donne â An Anatomy of the World
- Emilia Lanier â Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum
Births
- September 1 â William Cartwright, English dramatist (died 1643)
- October 22 â Jacques Esprit ("abbé Esprit"), French moralist (died 1677)
- October 26 â Antonio Coello, Spanish dramatist and poet (died 1652)
- unknown dates
- Richard Alleine, English religious writer (died 1681)
- Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy, French writer on art and painter (died 1665)
- Thomas Urquhart, Scottish translator (died c. 1660)
- probable year
- Jean François Sarrazin, French satirist (died 1654)
Deaths
- February 8 â Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, Dutch historian (born 1563)
- March 11 â Giles Fletcher, the Elder, English poet and diplomat (born c. 1548)
- March 20 â Johann Georg Gödelmann, German demonological writer (born 1559)
- April 23 â Martin Ruland the Younger, German alchemist and editor of his father's writings (born 1569)
- June 8 â Jean Bertaut, French poet (born 1552)
- September 22 â Pedro de Ribadeneira, Spanish ecclesiastical historian (born 1527)
- unknown date
- John Hamilton, Scottish Catholic controversialist (born c. 1547)