1625 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1625.
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Events
- January 1 – The King's Men act Henry IV, Part 1 at Whitehall Palace.
- January 9 – Ben Jonson's masque The Fortunate Isles and Their Union (designed by Inigo Jones) is played before the English Court in London, becoming the last of the Jacobean era.
- February 12 – John Milton enters Christ's College, Cambridge, aged 16.
- March 27 – King James VI of Scotland and I of England and Ireland, patron of the King James Bible and essayist, dies at Theobalds House in England. He is succeeded by his son, King Charles I of England.
- April – Sir Richard Baker's Oxfordshire property is seized as a result of debts.
- August 2–September 26 – Playwright Cyril Tourneur becomes secretary to the Council of War. On October 8 he joins the catastrophic Cádiz expedition in another secretarial post under Sir Edward Cecil and on December 11 is put ashore from the returning fleet at Kinsale in Ireland, terminally ill.[1]
- October – After the closure of the London public theaters for most of the year due to an outbreak of bubonic plague, a new company is formed as it abates with the cooler weather, Queen Henrietta's Men, under the patronage of the new King's wife.
- Late – 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.
New books
Prose
- Francis Bacon – Complete Essays
- Alonso de Castillo Solórzano – Tardes entretenidas[2]
- Hugo Grotius – De jure belli ac pacis
- Musaeum Hermeticum
- Ludovico Zuccolo – La Repubblica d' Evandria
Drama
- John Fletcher and Philip Massinger – The Elder Brother
- Alexandre Hardy – Mariamne (published)
- Ben Jonson
- Honorat de Bueil, seigneur de Racan – Les bergeries
- James Shirley – Love Tricks, or the School of Complement
- Joost van den Vondel – Palamedes
Poetry
- Honoré d'Urfé – Sylvanire
Births
- May 25
- John Davies, Welsh translator into English (died 1693)[3]
- Ann, Lady Fanshawe, English memoirist (died 1680)
- June 23 – John Fell, English academic and bishop (died 1686)
- August 20 – Thomas Corneille, French dramatist (died 1709)[4]
- unknown date – François Bernier, French travel writer and physician (died 1688)
Deaths
- January 29 – Jacob Gretser, German Jesuit writer (born 1562)
- March 25 – Giambattista Marino, Italian epic poet (born 1569)
- March 27 – King James VI of Scotland and I of England and Ireland, Scottish literary patron (born 1566)
- June 1 – Honoré d'Urfé, French novelist and miscellanist (born 1568)
- August 29 (burial) – John Fletcher, English dramatist (born 1579)
- September – Thomas Lodge, English dramatist and physician (born c. 1558)
- September 6 – Thomas Dempster, Scottish historian (born 1579)
- September 20 – Heinrich Meibom, German poet and historian (born 1555)
- c. October – John Florio, English linguist and lexicographer (born 1553)
- November 27 – John Cameron, Scottish theologian (born c. 1579)
References
- "Chronology" in Regents Renaissance Drama edition of The Revenger's Tragedy.
- Cayuela, Anne. "Tardes Entretenidas de Alonso de Castillo Solórzano: El Enigma como Poética de la Claridad" (PDF). Actas XIII Congreso AIH (Tomo I). 13 (1). Retrieved 6 March 2019.
- Lord, E. (2004). "Davies, John (1625–1693)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 1 November 2008.
- George Ripley; Charles Anderson Dana (1859). The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge. D. Appleton. p. 724.
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