1621 in literature
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Events from the year 1621 in literature.
Events
- January 27 â Sir Francis Bacon is created Viscount St Alban.[a]
- February 3 â John Chamberlain writes to Sir Dudley Carleton telling him the anonymous author of the tract Vox Populi has been revealed to be the radical preacher Thomas Scott.
- May 3 â Sir Francis Bacon is imprisoned in the Tower of London after being convicted of receiving bribes, but pardoned by King James I later in the year.[5]
- August 26 â Barten Holyday's allegorical play Technogamia, originally produced at Christ Church, Oxford in 1618, is staged before James I at Woodstock Palace. He dislikes it, but is persuaded to stay to the end for the student actors' sakes.
- September 24 â The earliest known copy of the Corante, generally regarded as the first English newspaper, is published.
- November 22 â The English poet John Donne is installed as Dean of St Paul's Cathedral in London.
- December 30 â The Spanish writer Francisco de Borja y Aragón is replaced as Viceroy of Peru by Juan Jiménez de Montalvo, and embarks for home on the following day.
Uncertain date
- Jeremias Drexel gives up preaching in order to write a biography of Elisabeth of Lorraine.
New books
Prose
- William Alabaster â De bestia Apocalypsis
- Robert Burton â The Anatomy of Melancholy
- Méric Casaubon â Pietas contra maledicos patrii Nominis et Religionis Hostes
- Mao Yuanyi (è å å, editor) â Wubei Zhi (æ¦åå¿, Treatise on Armaments)
- John Reynolds â The triumphs of Gods revenge, against the crying, and execrable sinne of murther
- Rachel Speght â Mortalities Memorandum
- John Taylor â Taylor's Motto
- Tobias Venner â A briefe and accurate treatise concerning the taking of the fume of tobacco
- John Widdowes â A Description of the World
- Lady Mary Wroth â The Countess of Montgomery's Urania
Drama
- Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, & Philip Massinger â Thierry and Theodoret (published)
- Thomas Dekker, John Ford, & William Rowley â The Witch of Edmonton
- Ben Jonson â The Gypsies Metamorphosed
- Tirso de Molina â El vergonzoso en palacio
Poetry
- George Wither â Wither's Motto
Births
- January 27 â Thomas Willis, English physician and natural philosopher (died 1675)
- March 18 â Henry Teonge, English diarist and naval chaplain (died 1690)
- March 31 â Andrew Marvell, English poet (died 1678)
- April 25 â Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, Anglo-Irish dramatist (died 1679)
- July 8 â Jean de La Fontaine, French author of fables (died 1695)
- December 3 â Bohuslav BalbÃn, Czech Jesuit writer (died 1688)
- December 14 (baptised) â Thomas Long, English writer and cleric (died 1707)
- unknown date â Jane Cavendish, English poet and playwright (died 1669)[6]
- probable â Françoise Bertaut de Motteville, French memoirist (died 1689)[7]
- Possible year (1621 or 1622) â Richard Allestree, English scholar and cleric (died 1681)
Deaths
- January 25 â François Pithou, French author and jurist (born 1543)[8]
- March 4 â Ana de Jesús, Spanish nun and writer (born 1545)
- May 11 â Johann Arndt, German theologian (born 1555)
- June â William Strachey, English eye-witness historian (born 1572)
- August 3 â Guillaume du Vair, French writer (born 1556)
- August 15 â John Barclay, Scottish writer (born 1582)
- September 25 â Mary Sidney, English playwright and translator (born 1561)
- October 7 or 8 â Antoine de Montchrestien, French adventurer and dramatist (born c. 1575)
- December 4 â Andrew Willet, English polemicist and cleric (born 1562)
- unknown date â Ludwig Hollonius, German dramatist (born c. 1570)[9]
