1619 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 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.
- 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.
New books
Prose
- Johannes Valentinus Andreae
- Reipublicae Christianopolitanae descriptio[2]
- 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
- 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 date
- Morgan Llwyd, Welsh preacher, poet and writer (died 1659)[3]
- Shalom Shabazi, Jewish Yemeni poet (died 1720)
- Probable year
- 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)
- Unknown date – Olivier de Serres, French writer on agriculture and horticulture (born 1539)
- Probable year – Ginés Pérez de Hita, Spanish novelist and poet (born c. 1544)
References
- "René Descartes". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- in Latin.
- "Morgan Llwyd | Welsh author". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
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