1625 in literature

none March 2017 1625 literature July 2020 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1625. Events January 1 – The King's Men act Henry IV, Part 1 (described as The First Part of Sir John Falstaff ) at Whitehall Palace.Louis Wright Folger Guide to Shakespeare https://books.google.com/books?id=0t-1ADggM7EC June 1978 Pocket Books 978-0-671-48848-2 386 January 9 – Ben Jonson's masque The Fortunate Isles and Their Union (designed by Inigo Jones) is played before the English Court in London, becoming the last of the Jacobean era.George Watson The new Cambridge bibliography of English literature: 660-1660 https://books.google.com/books?id=gfA8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1657 1974 CUP Archive 1657 February 12 – John Milton enters Christ's College, Cambridge, aged 16.Richard Bradford John Milton https://books.google.com/books?id=HVq8w53R82UC&pg=PT25 13 May 2013 Routledge 1-134-63269-X 25 March 27 – On the death of King James VI of Scotland and I of England and Ireland, patron of the King James Bible and essayist, he is succeeded by his son, the Prince of Wales. At the same time, theatres are closed because of an outbreak of plague and do not reopen until December.Simon Trussler The Cambridge Illustrated History of British Theatre https://books.google.com/books?id=68tSR6rOSgwC&pg=PA106 21 September 2000 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-79430-5 106 April – Sir Richard Baker's Oxfordshire property is seized as a result of debts.Great Britain. Public Record Office Calendar of State Papers: Of the Reign of Charles I, 1625-[1649]. Domestic series https://books.google.com/books?id=H1k4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA383 1859 Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts 383 August 2–September 26 – Playwright Cyril Tourneur becomes secretary to the Council of War. On October 8 he joins the catastrophic Cádiz expedition in another secretarial post under Sir Edward Cecil and on December 11 is put ashore from the returning fleet at Kinsale in Ireland, terminally ill."Chronology" in Regents Renaissance Drama edition of The Revenger's Tragedy. December – After the closure of the London public theatres for most of the year due to an outbreak of bubonic plague, a new company, Queen Henrietta's Men, is formed under the patronage of the new queen (whom Charles I had married in May 1625), and gives its first performances at the Cockpit Theatre. It replaces the dormant Queen Elizabeth's Men.Phyllis Hartnoll The Oxford Companion to the Theatre https://books.google.com/books?id=VFxWAAAAMAAJ 1983 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-211546-1 673 New books Prose Francis Bacon – Complete Essays Alonso de Castillo Solórzano – Tardes entretenidasCayuela Anne Tardes Entretenidas de Alonso de Castillo Solórzano: El Enigma como Poética de la Claridad Actas XIII Congreso AIH (Tomo I) 13 1 https://cvc.cervantes.es/literatura/aih/pdf/13/aih_13_1_059.pdf 6 March 2019 Hugo Grotius – De jure belli ac pacis Musaeum Hermeticum Samuel Purchas – Hakluytus Posthumus, or Purchas his Pilgrimes 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 Honorat de Bueil, seigneur de 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)http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7247 Davies, John (1625–1693) E. Lord Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 1 November 2008 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)George Ripley Charles Anderson Dana The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge https://books.google.com/books?id=pIQy-TP3cucC&pg=PA724 1859 D. Appleton 724 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 (born 1566) June 1 – Honoré d'Urfé, French novelist and miscellanist (born 1568) August 29 (burial) – John Fletcher, English dramatist (born 1579)CLARENCE L. BARNHART New Century Handbook of English Literature rev ed https://books.google.com/books?id=a2OQ5jYmYy8C 1967 443 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