1619 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1619.

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Events

• March – After the death of Richard Burbage, his place as leading actor of the King's Men in London is filled by Joseph Taylor.
• April – Ben Jonson visits the Scottish poet William Drummond of Hawthornden.
• c. October – 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 – De Tribus Principiis (On the Three Principles of Divine Being)
• Philipp Clüver
  • Sardinia et Corsica Antiqua
  • Siciliae Antique libri duo
• Robert Fludd – Utriusque Cosmi...Historia, Tomi Secundi (The History of the Two Worlds, Volume 2)
• Johannes Kepler – Harmonices Mundi (an attack on Fludd's Neoplatonist cosmology)
• John Pitseus – De Illustribus Angliae scriptoribus
• Paolo Sarpi – History of the Council of Trent
• John Taylor – A Kicksey Winsey, or, A Lerry Come-Twang

Drama

• Anonymous – Two Wise Men and All the Rest Fools (published)
• Beaumont and Fletcher
  • A King and No King (published)
  • The Maid's Tragedy (published)
• Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero
  • De Klucht van de koe
  • Stommen ridder
• John Fletcher – The Humorous Lieutenant
• John Fletcher and Philip Massinger – Sir John van Olden Barnavelt
• Lope de Vega – Fuente Ovejuna (published)
• Thomas Middleton – The Masque of Heroes

Poetry

Main article: 1619 in poetry

• Robert Carliell – Britaine's glorie, or An allegoricall dreame... (a defence of the new Church of England)
• George Wither – Fidelia

Births

• March 6 – Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier and poet (died 1655)
• June 24 – Rijcklof van Goens, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies 1678–81 and travel writer (died 1682)
• November 7 – Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French biographer (died 1692)
• December 28 – 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 19 – Lucilio Vanini, Italian philosopher (born 1585)
• March 13 – Richard Burbage, English actor and theatre proprietor (born c. 1567)
• July 12 – Olivier de Serres, French writer on agriculture and horticulture (born 1539)
• October 14 – Samuel Daniel, English Poet Laureate and historian (born 1562)
• October 18 – Petrus Gudelinus, Dutch jurist (born 1550)[5]

probable – Ginés Pérez de Hita, Spanish novelist and poet (born c. 1544)

References

1. "René Descartes". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
2. Michigan Academician. Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters. 1970. p. 95.
3. in Latin.
4. "Morgan Llwyd | Welsh author". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
5. G (in Dutch). 1862. p. 535.