1626 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1626.
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Events
- February – The King's Men premiere Ben Jonson's satire on the new newsgathering enterprise The Staple of News, his first new play in almost a decade, at the Blackfriars Theatre in London.[1]
- Novemberber – The deaths of Lancelot Andrewes and Nicholas Felton, Bishop of Ely, prompt John Milton, then a student at Cambridge, to write elegies in Latin for both.[2]
- December 27 – Izaak Walton marries Rachel Floud (died 1640).[3]
New books
Prose
- Francis Bacon – The New Atlantis
- Nicholas Breton – Fantastickes
- Alonso de Castillo Solórzano – Jornadas alegres
- Robert Fludd – Philosophia Sacra[4]
- Marie de Gournay – Les Femmes et Grief des Dames (The Ladies' Grievance)[5]
- Francisco de Quevedo – El Buscón
Drama
- Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft – Baeto, oft oorsprong der Holanderen
- John Fletcher and collaborators – The Fair Maid of the Inn
- William Heminges – The Jews' Tragedy
- Jean Mairet – La Sylvie
- Philip Massinger – A New Way to Pay Old Debts
- Thomas May – Cleopatra
- Thomas Middleton – The Triumphs of Health and Prosperity[6]
- Tirso de Molina – La Huerta de San Juan
- James Shirley – The Maid's Revenge; The Brothers
Births
- January – Robert Howard, English dramatist and politician (died 1698)
- February 5 – Madame de Sévigné, French letter writer (died 1696)
- March 12 – John Aubrey, English antiquary and writer (died 1697)[7]
- June 3 – Philippe Goibaud-Dubois, French writer and translator (died 1703)
- Unknown dates
- Elizabeth Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater, English poet and dramatist (died 1663)
- Alonso de Olmedo y Ormeño, Spanish actor and dramatist (died 1682)
Deaths
- February – William Rowley, English dramatist (born c. 1585)[8]
- February 28 – Cyril Tourneur, English dramatist (born 1575)[9]
- September 25
- Lancelot Andrewes, English scholar and bishop (born 1555)[10]
- Théophile de Viau, French poet and dramatist (born 1590)
- October 19 (estimated) – Béroalde de Verville, French poet and novelist (born 1556)[11]
- December 8 – Sir John Davies, English poet (born 1569)
- unknown date – Samuel Purchas, English miscellanist and travel writer (born c. 1577)[12]
- probable – Nicholas Breton, English poet and novelist (born c. 1545)[13]
References
- Ben Jonson (1999). Five Plays. Oxford University Press. pp. xviii. ISBN 978-0-19-283944-2.
- Barbara K. Lewalski (15 April 2008). The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 24–. ISBN 978-0-470-77684-1.
- Tara Hamling: "'An Arelome To This Hous For Ever': Monumental Fixtures and Furnishings..." Andrew Gordon and Thomas Rist (eds): The Arts of Remembrance in Early Modern England: Memorial Cultures... (Abingdon, Oxon/New York: Routledge, 2016 [2013]), p. 68.
- "Roberti Fludd ..." Philosophia sacra et vere christiana seu meteorologia cosmica (Google eBook) Accessed 1 February 2013
- "The Collected Works of Thomas Middleton. Accessed 1 February 2013". Archived from the original on 2012-02-09. Retrieved 2013-02-01.
- John Britton (28 August 2014). A Memoir of John Aubrey. Cambridge University Press. p. 24. ISBN 978-1-108-07344-8.
- Harold Bloom (1986). The New Moulton's Library of Literary Criticism: Elizabethan-Caroline. Chelsea House Publishers. p. 1158. ISBN 978-0-87754-781-5.
- Renaissance Drama. Macmillan International Higher Education. 1 November 1980. p. 115. ISBN 978-1-349-16424-0.
- Leonie James (2017). 'This Great Firebrand': William Laud and Scotland, 1617-1645. Boydell & Brewer. p. 32. ISBN 978-1-78327-219-8.
- Guillaume Colletet (1989). Vies des poètes tourangeaux. Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature. p. 17.
- Charles Henry Cooper (1861). Memorials of Cambridge. William Metcalfe. p. 112.
- Henry Morley (1891). Character Writings of the Seventeenth Century. G. Routledge. p. 238. ISBN 978-0-8274-2026-7.
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