Girish Mahajan (Editor)

1625 in literature

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1625.

Contents

Events

  • January 1 – The King's Men act Henry IV, Part 1 at Whitehall Palace.
  • March 27 – King James VI and I dies – he instigated and oversaw publication of the King James Bible.
  • October – Following the closure of the London theatres for most of the year, due to an outbreak of bubonic plague, the epidemic abates with the cooler weather and a new company is formed under royal patronage: Queen Henrietta's Men.
  • John Milton enters Christ's College, Cambridge.
  • Sir Richard Baker's Oxfordshire property is seized as a result of his debts.
  • Cyril Tourneur becomes secretary to the council of war and joins the catastrophic Cadiz expedition under Sir Edward Cecil.

    • Prose

  • Francis Bacon – Complete Essays
  • 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
  • The Staple of News
  • The Fortunate Isles and Their Union
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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 and essayist (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

    1625 in literature Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


    Similar Topics