1619 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1619.
Events
- March â After the death of Richard Burbage, his place as leading actor of the King's Men in London is filled by Joseph Taylor.
- April â Ben Jonson visits the Scottish poet William Drummond of Hawthornden.
- c. October â After the death of Samuel Daniel in Somerset, his place as Poet Laureate of the Kingdom of England is filled by Ben Jonson.
- unknown dates
- René Descartes has a dream that helps him develop his ideas on analytical geometry.[1]
- William Jaggard and Thomas Pavier publish in London the so-called False Folio, a collection of Shakespearean and pseudo-Shakespearean plays mostly with false imprints and dates.[2]
New books
Prose
- Johannes Valentinus Andreae
- Reipublicae Christianopolitanae descriptio[3]
- Turris Babel
- Jacob Boehme â De Tribus Principiis (On the Three Principles of Divine Being)
- Philipp Clüver
- Sardinia et Corsica Antiqua
- Siciliae Antique libri duo
- Robert Fludd â Utriusque Cosmi...Historia, Tomi Secundi (The History of the Two Worlds, Volume 2)
- Johannes Kepler â Harmonices Mundi (an attack on Fludd's Neoplatonist cosmology)
- John Pitseus â De Illustribus Angliae scriptoribus
- Samuel Purchas â Purchas his Pilgrim or Microcosmus, or the Historie of Man. Relating the Wonders of his Generation, Vanities in his Degeneration, Necessities of his Regenerations
- Paolo Sarpi â History of the Council of Trent
- John Taylor â A Kicksey Winsey, or, A Lerry Come-Twang
- William Whately â A Bride-Bvsh; or a Direction for Married Persons. Plainely describing the Dvties common to both, and peculiar to each of them
Drama
- Anonymous â Two Wise Men and All the Rest Fools (published)
- Beaumont and Fletcher (published)
- Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero
- De klucht van de koe
- Stommen ridder
- Lope de Vega â Fuente Ovejuna (published)
- John Fletcher â The Humorous Lieutenant
- John Fletcher and Philip Massinger â Sir John van Olden Barnavelt
- Philip Massinger and Nathan Field â The Fatal Dowry (approximate date)
- Thomas Middleton â The Masque of Heroes
Poetry
- Robert Carliell â Britaine's glorie, or An allegoricall dreame... (a defence of the new Church of England)
- George Wither â Fidelia
Births
- March 6 â Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier and poet (died 1655)
- June 24 â Rijcklof van Goens, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies 1678â81 and travel writer (died 1682)
- November 7 â Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French biographer (died 1692)
- December 28 â Antoine Furetière, French satirist (died 1688)
- unknown dates
- Morgan Llwyd, Welsh preacher, poet and writer (died 1659)[4]
- Shalom Shabazi, Jewish Yemeni poet (died 1720)
- probable
- William Chamberlayne, English poet, playwright, physician and Royalist soldier (died 1703)
- Alice Curwen, English autobiographer and Quaker (died 1679)
- Henry (Heinrich) Oldenburg, German-born editor, correspondent and Royal Society secretary (died 1677)
Deaths
- February 9 â Lucilio Vanini, Italian philosopher (born 1585)
- February 12 â Pierre de Larivey, Italian-born French dramatist (born 1549)[5]
- March 13 â Richard Burbage, English actor and theatre proprietor (born c. 1567)
- July 12 â Olivier de Serres, French writer on agriculture and horticulture (born 1539)
- October 14 â Samuel Daniel, English Poet Laureate and historian (born 1562)
- October 18 â Petrus Gudelinus, Dutch jurist (born 1550)[6]
- October 19 â Fujiwara Seika, Japanese philosopher (born 1561)
probable
- Ginés Pérez de Hita, Spanish novelist and poet (born c. 1544)
- Pierre de La Primaudaye, French Protestant writer (born 1546)[7]
