1612 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1612.
Events
- January 6 â Ben Jonson's masque Love Restored is performed.[1]
- January 12 â The King's Men and Queen Anne's Men unite for the first of two English Court performances in January, with Thomas Heywood's The Silver Age
- January 13 â The King's Men perform Heywood's The Rape of Lucrece.[2]
- February 2 â Queen Anne's Men return to court to play Greene's Tu Quoque.[3]
- May 11 â Shakespeare testifies in the Bellott v. Mountjoy lawsuit which involves his London landlord.
- November 6 â Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, eldest son and heir to King James I of England, dies of typhoid fever. His coterie of followers, which included literary figures like Ben Jonson and John Selden, are forced to seek other patrons.[4]
- unknown dates
- Thomas Shelton publishes The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-Errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha, the first translation of Cervantes' novel Don Quixote (first part) into English (or any other language).
- The Accademia della Crusca publishes the first dictionary of the Italian language.
- "Printers Bible": Some copies of the King James Version of the Bible printed in England this year contain an erratum with Psalm 119:161 reading "printers" (rather than "princes") "have persecuted me without a cause."
New books
- Traiano Boccalini â Ragguagli di Parnasso[5]
- John Brinsley â Ludus literarius; or The Grammar Schoole[6]
- John Davies â Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued[7]
- John Davies of Hereford â The Picture of a Happy Man[8]
- Edward Grimeston
- The Generall Historie of Spaine (translated from French)
- The General History of the Magnificent State of Venice
- Thomas Heywood â An Apology for Actors[9]
- Antonius Magirus â Koock-boeck ofte Familieren kevken-boeck[10]
- William Strachey - The Historie of Travaile Into Virginia Britannia[11]
- Francisco de Quevedo â La cuna y la sepultura[12]
New drama
- George Chapman â The Widow's Tears published
- Robert Daborne â A Christian Turn'd Turk published[13]
- Nathan Field â A Woman is a Weathercock published[14]
- Ben Jonson â Love Restored (masque)
- John Webster â The White Devil published[15]
Poetry
- Michael Drayton â Poly-Olbion[15]
- Luis de Góngora â Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea (Fable of Polyphemus and Galatea)
- Expanded edition of The Passionate Pilgrim
- George Wither â Elegy on the death of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales[16]
Births
- February 6 â Antoine Arnauld, French theologian and philosopher (died 1694)[17]
- February 7 â Thomas Killigrew, English dramatist (died 1683)[18]
- February 8 â Samuel Butler, English poet and satirist (died 1680)[19]
- March 4 (bapt.) â Jan Vos, Dutch poet and dramatist (died 1667)
- March 20 â Anne Bradstreet, née Dudley, English-born American poet (died 1672)
- unknown date â Edward King, English poet (died 1637)
- probable â John Rushworth, English lawyer and historian (died 1690)
Deaths
- February â John Gerard (John Gerarde), English botanist and author of herbal (born c. 1545)[20]
- March 16 â Thomas Holland, English theologian and Bible translator (born 1539)
- April 11 â Emanuel van Meteren, Flemish historian (born 1535)[21]
- June 1 â Carlos Félix, 6-year-old son of Lope de Vega.[22]
- July 29 â Jacques Bongars, French diplomat and scholar (born 1554)[23]
- August 4 â Hugh Broughton, English Biblical scholar (born 1549)[24]
- September â Giovanni de' Bardi, Italian music theorist and critic (born 1534)
- September 24 â Johannes Lippius, German theologian, philosopher, composer, and music theorist (born 1585)[25]
- September 27 â Piotr Skarga (Piotr PowÄski), Polish hagiographer (born 1536)[26]
- October 7 â Giovanni Battista Guarini, Italian poet (born 1538)[27]
- November 20 â Sir John Harington, English courtier, writer and inventor of flush toilet (born 1560)[28]
