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1619 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1619.

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Events

  • March – Following the death of Richard Burbage, his place as the star of the King's Men in London is filled by Joseph Taylor.
  • April – Ben Jonson visits Scottish poet William Drummond of Hawthornden.
  • c. October – Following the death of Samuel Daniel in Somerset, his place as Poet Laureate of the Kingdom of England is filled by Ben Jonson.
  • René Descartes has a dream that helps him develop his ideas on analytical geometry.
  • William Jaggard and Thomas Pavier publish the so-called False Folio, a collection of Shakespearean and pseudo-Shakespearean plays mostly with false imprints and dates, in London.

    • Prose

  • Johannes Valentinus Andreae
  • Reipublicae Christianopolitanae descriptio
  • 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
  • Fletcher and Philip Massinger – Sir John van Olden Barnavelt
  • Lope de Vega – Fuente Ovejuna (published)
  • Thomas Middleton – The Masque of Heroes

    • Poetry

  • 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 date
  • Shalom Shabazi, Jewish Yemeni poet (died 1720)
  • Probable year of birth
  • 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)
  • October 14 – Samuel Daniel, English Poet Laureate and historian (born 1562)
  • October 18 – Petrus Gudelinus, Dutch jurist (born 1550)
  • Probable year of birth – Ginés Pérez de Hita, Spanish novelist and poet (born c. 1544)

    • References

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