1612 in literature

none 1612 literature July 2020 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1612. Events January 6 – Ben Jonson's masque Love Restored is performed.E. K. Chambers E. K. Chambers The Elizabethan Stage Oxford Clarendon Press 1923 3 387 January 12 – The King's Men and Queen Anne's Men unite for the first of two English Court performances in January, with Thomas Heywood's The Silver Age January 13 – The King's Men perform Heywood's The Rape of Lucrece.Thomas James King Shakespearean Staging, 1599-1642 https://books.google.com/books?id=Xx1aAAAAMAAJ 1971 Harvard University Press 978-0-674-80490-6 63 February 2 – Queen Anne's Men return to court to play Greene's Tu Quoque.John Pitcher Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England https://books.google.com/books?id=RO2-zun-A5QC&pg=PA329 March 1999 Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press 978-0-8386-3805-7 329 May 11 – Shakespeare testifies in the Bellott v. Mountjoy lawsuit which involves his London landlord. November 6 – Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, eldest son and heir to King James I of England, dies of typhoid fever. His coterie of followers, which included literary figures like Ben Jonson and John Selden, are forced to seek other patrons.Roy Strong Roy Strong Henry, Prince of Wales and England's Lost Renaissance London Pimlico 1986 unknown dates Thomas Shelton publishes The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-Errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha, the first translation of Cervantes' novel Don Quixote (first part) into English (or any other language). The Accademia della Crusca publishes the first dictionary of the Italian language. "Printers Bible": Some copies of the King James Version of the Bible printed in England this year contain an erratum with Psalm 119:161 reading "printers" (rather than "princes") "have persecuted me without a cause." New books Traiano Boccalini – Ragguagli di ParnassoAlan Houston Steve Pincus A Nation Transformed: England After the Restoration https://books.google.com/books?id=HH6heSydt-IC&pg=PA269 20 August 2001 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-80252-9 269 John Brinsley – la Ludus literarius; or The Grammar SchooleJohn Roach A Regional Study of Yorkshire Schools, 1500-1820 https://books.google.com/books?id=ykO8AAAAIAAJ 1998 E. Mellen Press 978-0-7734-8250-0 145 John Davies – Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subduedAudrey Horning Ireland in the Virginian Sea: Colonialism in the British Atlantic https://books.google.com/books?id=YmLqCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA185 16 December 2013 UNC Press Books 978-1-4696-1073-3 185 John Davies of Hereford – The Picture of a Happy ManJohn W. Cousin Biographical Dictionary of English Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=6Iyps3nXRhUC&pg=PT169 1938 Library of Alexandria 978-1-4655-7188-5 169 Edward Grimeston The Generall Historie of Spaine (translated from French) The General History of the Magnificent State of Venice Thomas Heywood – An Apology for ActorsLaura C. Lambdin Robert T. Lambdin Arthurian Writers: A Biographical Encyclopedia https://books.google.com/books?id=6LBFCZY-ml8C&pg=PA146 2008 978-0-313-34682-8 146 Antonius Magirus – Koock-boeck ofte Familieren kevken-boeckJoop Witteveen Bart Cuperus Bibliotheca gastronomica: eten en drinken in Nederland en België 1474-1960 https://books.google.com/books?id=y8LgAAAAMAAJ 1998 Linnaeus 978-90-6105-035-3 227 nl William Strachey - The Historie of Travaile Into Virginia BritanniaLee Miller Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony https://books.google.com/books?id=A_T0GyxK9DYC&pg=PA340 2001 Arcade Publishing 978-1-55970-584-4 340 Francisco de Quevedo – La cuna y la sepulturaRichard E. Chandler Kessel Schwartz A New History of Spanish Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=h79ViVeChFIC&pg=PA319 1 September 1991 LSU Press 978-0-8071-1735-4 319 en New drama George Chapman – The Widow's Tears published Robert Daborne – A Christian Turn'd Turk publishedJacob Lopes Cardozo The Contemporary Jew in the Elizabethan Drama https://books.google.com/books?id=EKswAQAAMAAJ 1968 B. Franklin xiii Nathan Field – A Woman is a Weathercock publishedLukas Erne Shakespeare and the Book Trade https://books.google.com/books?id=vi8WBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA102 25 April 2013 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76566-4 102 en Ben Jonson – Love Restored (masque) John Webster – The White Devil publishedWilliams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 243–248 Poetry 1612 in poetry Michael Drayton – Poly-Olbion Luis de Góngora – Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea (Fable of Polyphemus and Galatea) Expanded edition of The Passionate Pilgrim George Wither – Elegy on the death of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales Wither, George 28 758–759 Births February 6 – Antoine Arnauld, French theologian and philosopher (died 1694)The History of Paris, from the Earliest Period to the Present Day https://books.google.com/books?id=ESysbX-9TCgC&pg=PA424 1825 424 February 7 – Thomas Killigrew, English dramatist (died 1683)Christopher Baker Absolutism and the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1720: A Biographical Dictionary https://books.google.com/books?id=SDy-MtS9mvgC&pg=PA206 2002 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-0-313-30827-7 206 February 8 – Samuel Butler, English poet and satirist (died 1680)John Scott Clark A Study of English and American Writers: A Laboratory Method https://books.google.com/books?id=ERY8AQAAMAAJ 1974 AMS Press 978-0-404-01559-6 167 en March 4 (bapt.) – Jan Vos, Dutch poet and dramatist (died 1667) March 20 – Anne Bradstreet, née Dudley, English-born American poet (died 1672) unknown date – Edward King, English poet (died 1637) probable – John Rushworth, English lawyer and historian (died 1690) Deaths February – John Gerard (John Gerarde), English botanist and author of herbal (born c. 1545)Encyclopædia Britannica Encyclopædia Britannica John Gerard: English herbalist and author https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Gerard 1 November 2016 EB 2016 8 March 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220308000928/https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Gerard live March 16 – Thomas Holland, English theologian and Bible translator (born 1539) April 11 – Emanuel van Meteren, Flemish historian (born 1535)Walpole Society (Great Britain) The ... Volume of the Walpole Society https://books.google.com/books?id=IBOgAAAAMAAJ 1980 Walpole Society 205 June 1 – Carlos Félix, 6-year-old son of Lope de Vega.Félix de Lope de Vega Carpio July 29 – Jacques Bongars, French diplomat and scholar (born 1554)Keith Busby Les Manuscrits de Chrétien de Troyes https://books.google.com/books?id=NsvcTtsIyRgC&pg=PA98 1993 Rodopi 90-5183-603-1 98 August 4 – Hugh Broughton, English Biblical scholar (born 1549)BRTN569H Broughton, Hugh September – Giovanni de' Bardi, Italian music theorist and critic (born 1534) September 24 – Johannes Lippius, German theologian, philosopher, composer, and music theorist (born 1585)Benito V. Rivera German Music Theory in the Early 17th Century: The Treatises of Johannes Lippius https://books.google.com/books?id=FXUIAQAAMAAJ 1980 UMI Research Press 978-0-8357-1074-9 3 September 27 – Piotr Skarga (Piotr Powęski), Polish hagiographer (born 1536)Harvard Theological Studies https://books.google.com/books?id=ygdyAAAAIAAJ 1995 Scholars Press 978-0-8006-7085-6 865 October 7 – Giovanni Battista Guarini, Italian poet (born 1538)Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 https://books.google.com/books?id=JpBkAAAAMAAJ 2004 Gale Research Company 978-0-7876-6968-3 1 November 20 – Sir John Harington, English courtier, writer and inventor of flush toilet (born 1560)Jason Scott-Warren Sir John Harington and the Book as Gift https://books.google.com/books?id=gII7jGrkLz8C&pg=PA20 2001 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-924445-4 20 References