1618 in literature

none 1618 literature July 2020 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1618. Events January – Lady Hay and eight other Court ladies plan and rehearse a Ladies' Masque or Masque for Ladies, intended for a Twelfth Night performance, but it is cancelled a few days before, either by King James or Queen Anne. January 4 – Sir Francis Bacon is appointed Lord Chancellor by King James I of England.http://www.fbrt.org.uk/pages/shakespeare/ptiv/mask/descriptions/description-mask.html Francis Bacon Research Trust 2012-06-25 https://web.archive.org/web/20050930134816/http://www.fbrt.org.uk/pages/shakespeare/ptiv/mask/descriptions/description-mask.html 2005-09-30 dead April 6 (Easter Monday) – The King's Men perform Twelfth Night at Court. April 7 – The King's Men perform The Winter's Tale at Court. July – Ben Jonson sets out to walk to Scotland.http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/literatures-languages-cultures/english-literature/research-activities/ben-jonson-walk-scotland University of Edinburgh: Ben Jonson's walk to Scotland 2012-06-25 https://web.archive.org/web/20120309235111/http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/literatures-languages-cultures/english-literature/research-activities/ben-jonson-walk-scotland 2012-03-09 dead Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet, begins remodelling the Paris residence which becomes the Hôtel de Rambouillet to form a literary salon. New books Prose William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley – Certain Precepts or Directions, For the Well-ordering and Carriage of a Man's Life Renold Elstracke – Braziliologia Vicente Espinel – Relaciones de la vida del escudero Marcos de Obregón Robert Fludd – De Musica Mundana Michael Maier – Atalanta Fugiens Themis aurea Daniel Mögling – Speculum Sophicum Rhodo-Stauroticum John Selden – History of Tythes Drama Anonymous – The Tragedy of Amurath Jakob Ayrer (died 1605) – Opus Theatricum published Guillén de Castro y Bellvis – Comedias, part 1 Lope de Vega La moza de cántaro es (The Pitcher Girls) El rey don Pedro en Madrid Nathan Field – Amends for Ladies published John Fletcher – The Loyal Subject Peter Heylin – Theomachia (in Latin) Barten Holyday – Technogamia Ben Jonson – masques Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue For the Honour of Wales Poetry 1618 in poetry Jacob Cats – Emblemata Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar – Rimas John Taylor – The Pennylesse Pilgrimage Births March 23 – Ferrante Pallavicino, Italian satirist (died 1644) April – Agustín Moreto y Cavana, Spanish dramatist and priest (died 1661) Unknown dates Thomas Blount, English antiquary and lexicographer, (died 1679) Abraham Cowley, English poet (died 1667) Raffaello Fabretti, Italian antiquary (died 1700) Isaac Vossius, Dutch scholar and librarian (died 1689) Probable year of birth – Jacques Chausson, French writer and criminal (died 1661) Deaths July – John Davies of Hereford, Anglo-Welsh poet (born c. 1565) July 26 – Martinus Smiglecius, Polish Jesuit philosopher (born 1563) August 23 – Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero, Dutch poet (born 1585) September 22 – Jacobus Taurinus, Dutch theologian (born 1576)Lutzen H. Wagenaar Van strijd en overwinning: de groote Synode van 1618 op '19, en wat aan haar voorafging https://books.google.com/books?id=yQAyAQAAMAAJ 1909 Ruys 203 nl September 28 – Joshua Sylvester, English poet (born 1563) October 29 – Sir Walter Ralegh, English adventurer and author (executed, born c. 1554) Unknown dates François de Boivin, French chronicler Richard Stanihurst, Irish translator of Virgil (born 1547) Probable year – Bento Teixeira, Portuguese poet (born c. 1561) References