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1623 literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1623.
Events
February 2 (Candlemas) – The King's Men perform Twelfth Night (under the alternative title Malvolio) at the court of King James I of England.William Shakespeare Twelfth Night The Arden Shakespeare, Third Series https://books.google.com/books?id=bwWzPPsfudQC&pg=PA146 2008 A&C Black 978-1-903436-99-8 146
February 28 – John Hacket's Latin comedy Loiola is staged at Trinity College, Cambridge, and repeated on March 12 for King James I of England on his third visit to the university. The play mocks both Catholics, in the person of Ignatius Loyola, and Calvinists, who are represented by Martinus, a canting elder of Amsterdam.https://books.google.com/books?id=chsfD_r7EaQC&dq=loiola+1622&pg=PA73 George Charles Moore Smith College Plays: Performed in the University of Cambridge 1905 3 9781108008891 2015-10-16
June 29 – Pedro Calderón de la Barca makes his debut as a playwright, his es Amor, honor y poder (Love, Honor and Power) being performed at the Spanish Court. Two other plays follow this year.
July 20 – Henry Herbert (Sir Henry from August) becomes deputy to Sir John Ashley, Master of the Revels and takes over his duties. Herbert effectively controls professional drama in England from 1623 until the theaters close in 1642.
Between November 8 and December 5 – Publication of the "First Folio" (Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies), a collection of 36 of the plays of Shakespeare, half of which have not previously been printed, compiled posthumously by actors John Heminges and Henry Condell and published by Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount in London. The first recorded purchase is on December 5, of two copies at £1 each by Sir Edward Dering.Sotheby's. The Shakespeare First Folio, 1623: The Dr. Williams's Library Copy, 13 July 2006; "Three Issues" p. 26; auction catalogue research by Peter Selley and Dr. Peter Beal.
Procopius's long-lost Secret History is rediscovered in the Vatican Library.
François le Métel de Boisrobert comes under the patronage of Cardinal Richelieu.
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New books
Francis Bacon – la De Augmentis Scientiarum
Jakob Böhme
On Election to Grace
On Christ's Testaments
la Mysterium Magnum
Clavis (Key)
Tommaso Campanella – la Civitas Solis ("The City of the Sun")Robin Healey Italian Literature Before 1900 in English Translation: An Annotated Bibliography, 1929-2008 https://books.google.com/books?id=38gBss-QJ9wC&pg=PA70 1 January 2011 University of Toronto Press 978-1-4426-4269-0 70
William Drummond of Hawthornden – Flowers of Sion
Galileo Galilei – Il saggiatore (The Assayer)
James Mabbe – Guzmán de Alfarache, translated from the Spanish original by Mateo Alemán
Giambattista Marini – Adone
Antonio de León Pinelo – es Discurso de la importancia, de la forma, y de la disposicion de la colleccion de las leyes de Indias
Thomas Scott – Vox Dei
George Wither – Hymnes and Songs of the Church
New drama
Anonymous (Robert Ward?) – Fucus HistriomastixSylvia Stoler Wagonheim The Annals of English Drama 975-1700 https://books.google.com/books?id=kb1_AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA269 21 August 2013 Routledge 978-1-134-67634-7 269
Richard Brome – A Fault in Friendship (lost), his earliest known play
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
es Amor, honor y poder
es La selva confusa
es Los Macabeos
Thomas Dekker (& John Day?) – The Wonder of a Kingdom
Thomas Dekker, John Ford, & William Rowley (?) – The Spanish Gypsy
Thomas Drue – The Duchess of Suffolk
John Fletcher and Philip Massinger – The Lovers' Progress
John Fletcher and William Rowley – The Maid in the Mill
John Hacket – Loiola
Ben Jonson – Time Vindicated to Himself and to His Honours (masque)
Philip Massinger
The Bondman (performed)
The Duke of Milan (published)
Robert Ward (?) – Fucus Histriomastix
John Webster
The Duchess of Malfi (published)
The Devil's Law Case (published)
Poetry
1623 in poetry
Martin Opitz – de Lob des Feldlebens
Giovan Battista Marino – L'Adone
Births
March 27 – Francesco Negri, Italian priest and travel writer (died 1698)Filippo Mordani Vite di ravegnani illustri Stampe de' Roveri Ravenna 1837 https://books.google.com/books?id=UA0wAAAAYAAJ 14 February 2015 165
June 19 – Blaise Pascal, French philosopher (died 1662)Blaise Pascal Villemain (Abel-François, M.) The provincial letters of Blaise Pascal https://books.google.com/books?id=cfdKAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA18 1859 Derby & Jackson 18
October 17 – Francis Turretin, Swiss theologian (died 1687)
Unknown dates
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, English biographer, poet and philosopher (died 1673)Margaret Cavendish https://www.bl.uk/people/margaret-cavendish The British Library 26 March 2019 26 March 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190326131844/https://www.bl.uk/people/margaret-cavendish dead
Henri Sauval, French historian (died 1676)
Deaths
January 15 – Paolo Sarpi, Venetian church historian (born 1552)
July 25 – Gaspar Aguilar, Spanish poet and dramatist (born 1561)John G. Weiger The Valencian Dramatists of Spain's Golden Age https://books.google.com/books?id=ZppdAAAAMAAJ 1976 Twayne Publishers 978-0-8057-6219-8 81
July/August – Tulsidas, Hindu philosopher and poet (born 1532)
November – William Jaggard, English printer (born c. 1568)
November 9 – William Camden, English historian (born 1551)Nicholas Charles Visitation of the County of Huntingdon, Under the Authority of William Camden, A.d. 1613. Ed. by Henry Ellis https://books.google.com/books?id=qVNjAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP15 1849 Nichols 15
November 11 – Philippe de Mornay, French Protestant writer (born 1549)
December 31 – Philipp Clüver, German historian (born 1580)
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