1618 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1618.
Events
- January â Lady Hay and eight other Court ladies plan and rehearse a Ladies' Masque or Masque for Ladies, intended for a Twelfth Night performance, but it is cancelled a few days before, either by King James or Queen Anne.
- January 4 â Sir Francis Bacon is appointed Lord Chancellor by King James I of England.[1]
- April 6 (Easter Monday) â The King's Men perform Twelfth Night at Court.
- April 7 â The King's Men perform The Winter's Tale at Court.
- July â Ben Jonson sets out to walk to Scotland.[2]
- Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet, begins remodelling the Paris residence which becomes the Hôtel de Rambouillet to form a literary salon.
New books
Prose
- William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley â Certain Precepts or Directions, For the Well-ordering and Carriage of a Man's Life
- Renold Elstracke â Braziliologia
- Vicente Espinel â Relaciones de la vida del escudero Marcos de Obregón
- Robert Fludd â De Musica Mundana
- Michael Maier â Atalanta Fugiens
- Themis aurea
- Daniel Mögling â Speculum Sophicum Rhodo-Stauroticum
- John Selden â History of Tythes
Drama
- Anonymous â The Tragedy of Amurath
- Jakob Ayrer (died 1605) â Opus Theatricum published
- Guillén de Castro y Bellvis â Comedias, part 1
- Lope de Vega
- La moza de cántaro (The Pitcher Girls)
- El rey don Pedro en Madrid
- Nathan Field â Amends for Ladies published
- John Fletcher â The Loyal Subject
- Peter Heylin â Theomachia (in Latin)
- Barten Holyday â Technogamia
- Ben Jonson â masques
- Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue
- For the Honour of Wales
Poetry
- Jacob Cats â Emblemata
- Juan MartÃnez de Jáuregui y Aguilar â Rimas
- John Taylor â The Pennylesse Pilgrimage
Births
- March 23 â Ferrante Pallavicino, Italian satirist (died 1644)
- April â AgustÃn Moreto y Cavana, Spanish dramatist and priest (died 1661)
- Unknown dates
- Thomas Blount, English antiquary and lexicographer, (died 1679)
- Abraham Cowley, English poet (died 1667)
- Raffaello Fabretti, Italian antiquary (died 1700)
- Isaac Vossius, Dutch scholar and librarian (died 1689)
- Probable year of birth â Jacques Chausson, French writer and criminal (died 1661)
Deaths
- July â John Davies of Hereford, Anglo-Welsh poet (born c. 1565)
- July 26 â Martinus Smiglecius, Polish Jesuit philosopher (born 1563)
- August 23 â Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero, Dutch poet (born 1585)
- September 22 â Jacobus Taurinus, Dutch theologian (born 1576)[3]
- September 28 â Joshua Sylvester, English poet (born 1563)
- October 29 â Sir Walter Ralegh, English adventurer and author (executed, born c. 1554)
- Unknown dates
- François de Boivin, French chronicler
- Richard Stanihurst, Irish translator of Virgil (born 1547)
- Probable year â Bento Teixeira, Portuguese poet (born c. 1561)