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1618 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1618.

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Events

  • January – Lady Hay and eight other Court ladies plan and rehearse a Ladies' Masque or Masque for Ladies, intended for a Twelfth Night performance, but it is cancelled a few days before, either by King James or Queen Anne.
  • January 4 – Sir Francis Bacon is appointed Lord Chancellor by King James I of England.
  • April 6 (Easter Monday) – The King's Men perform Twelfth Night at Court.
  • April 7 – The King's Men perform The Winter's Tale at Court.
  • July – Ben Jonson sets out to walk to Scotland.

    • Prose

  • William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley – Certain Precepts or Directions, For the Well-ordering and Carriage of a Man's Life
  • Renold Elstracke – Braziliologia
  • Vicente Espinel – Relaciones de la vida del escudero Marcos de Obregón
  • Robert Fludd – De Musica Mundana
  • Michael Maier – Atalanta Fugiens
  • Themis aurea
  • Daniel Mögling – Speculum Sophicum Rhodo-Stauroticum
  • Friedrich Nausea -A Treatise of Blazing Stars in General
  • Edmund Reeve – A Heptaglottology, that is A Treatise Concerning Seven Languages, to wit the Hebrew, Greek, Chaldean, Latin, Arabic, Syriac, Talmudicorabbinical
  • Angelus Sala – Opiologia, or A Treatise Concerning the Nature, Properties, True Preparation and Safe Use and Administration of Opium
  • Arthur Saul – The Famous Game of Chess-Play
  • John Selden – History of Tythes

    • Drama

  • Anonymous – The Tragedy of Amurath
  • Jakob Ayrer (died 1605) – Opus Theatricum published
  • Guillén de Castro y Bellvis – Comedias, part 1
  • Lope de Vega
  • La moza de cántaro ("The pitcher girls")
  • El rey don Pedro en Madrid
  • Nathan Field – Amends for Ladies published
  • John Fletcher – The Loyal Subject
  • Peter Heylin – Theomachia (in Latin)
  • Barten Holyday – Technogamia
  • Ben Jonson – masques
  • Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue
  • For the Honour of Wales

    • Poetry

  • Jacob Cats – Emblemata
  • Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar – Rimas
  • John Taylor – The Pennylesse Pilgrimage

    • Births

  • March 23 – Ferrante Pallavicino, Italian satirist (died 1644)
  • April – Agustín Moreto y Cavana, Spanish dramatist and priest (died 1661)
  • Unknown dates
  • Thomas Blount, English antiquary and lexicographer, (died 1679)
  • Abraham Cowley, English poet (died 1667)
  • Raffaello Fabretti, Italian antiquary (died 1700)
  • Isaac Vossius, Dutch scholar and librarian (died 1689)
  • Probable year of birth – Jacques Chausson, French writer and criminal (died 1661)

    • Deaths

  • July – John Davies of Hereford, Anglo-Welsh poet (born c. 1565)
  • July 26 – Martinus Smiglecius, Polish Jesuit philosopher (born 1563)
  • August 23 – Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero, Dutch poet (born 1585)
  • September 28 – Joshua Sylvester, English poet (born 1563)
  • October 29 – Sir Walter Ralegh, English adventurer and author (executed, born c. 1554)
  • Unknown dates
  • François de Boivin, French chronicler
  • Richard Stanihurst, Irish translator of Virgil (born 1547)
  • Jacobus Taurinus, Dutch theologian (born 1576)
  • Probable year – Bento Teixeira, Portuguese poet (born c. 1561)

    • References

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