This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1619.
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Events
edit- 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.
- unknown dates
- 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.[2]
New books
editProse
edit- Johannes Valentinus Andreae
- Reipublicae Christianopolitanae descriptio[3]
- 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
- Samuel Purchas – Purchas his Pilgrim or Microcosmus, or the Historie of Man. Relating the Wonders of his Generation, Vanities in his Degeneration, Necessities of his Regenerations
- Paolo Sarpi – History of the Council of Trent
- John Taylor – A Kicksey Winsey, or, A Lerry Come-Twang
- William Whately – A Bride-Bvsh; or a Direction for Married Persons. Plainely describing the Dvties common to both, and peculiar to each of them
Drama
edit- Anonymous – Two Wise Men and All the Rest Fools (published)
- Beaumont and Fletcher (published)
- Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero
- De klucht van de koe
- Stommen ridder
- Lope de Vega – Fuente Ovejuna (published)
- John Fletcher – The Humorous Lieutenant
- John Fletcher and Philip Massinger – Sir John van Olden Barnavelt
- Philip Massinger and Nathan Field – The Fatal Dowry (approximate date)
- Thomas Middleton – The Masque of Heroes
Poetry
edit- Robert Carliell – Britaine's glorie, or An allegoricall dreame... (a defence of the new Church of England)
- George Wither – Fidelia
Births
edit- 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 dates
- Morgan Llwyd, Welsh preacher, poet and writer (died 1659)[4]
- Shalom Shabazi, Jewish Yemeni poet (died 1720)
- probable
- 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
edit- February 9 – Lucilio Vanini, Italian philosopher (born 1585)
- February 12 – Pierre de Larivey, Italian-born French dramatist (born 1549)[5]
- March 13 – Richard Burbage, English actor and theatre proprietor (born c. 1567)
- July 12 – Olivier de Serres, French writer on agriculture and horticulture (born 1539)
- October 14 – Samuel Daniel, English Poet Laureate and historian (born 1562)
- October 18 – Petrus Gudelinus, Dutch jurist (born 1550)[6]
- October 19 – Fujiwara Seika, Japanese philosopher (born 1561)
probable
- Ginés Pérez de Hita, Spanish novelist and poet (born c. 1544)
- Pierre de La Primaudaye, French Protestant writer (born 1546)[7]
References
edit- ^ "René Descartes". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- ^ Michigan Academician. Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters. 1970. p. 95.
- ^ in Latin.
- ^ "Morgan Llwyd | Welsh author". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
- ^ public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Larivey, Pierre". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 217. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ^ G (in Dutch). 1862. p. 535.
- ^ Stuart Gillespie (1 August 2001). Shakespeare's Books: A Dictionary of Shakespeare Sources. A&C Black. p. 276. ISBN 978-1-84714-338-9.