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1609 literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1609.
Events
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January 1 – The Children of the Blackfriars perform Thomas Middleton's A Trick to Catch the Old One at the English royal court.Thomas Middleton A Trick to Catch the Old One https://books.google.com/books?id=BV3undhI1qMC&pg=PA11 University of California Press 11
January 15 – Avisa Relation oder Zeitung, an early newspaper, begins publication in Wolfenbüttel (Holy Roman Empire).
May 20 – The London publisher Thomas Thorpe issues Shake-speares Sonnets, with a dedication to "Mr. W. H.", and the poem A Lover's Complaint appended. It is unclear whether this has Shakespeare's authority.
July 28 – The Sea Venture is wrecked in Bermuda – an event thought to be an inspiration for Shakespeare's play The Tempest.Horn, James (2006). A Land as God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America, pp. 158–160. New York: Basic Books. 0-465-03094-7.
October 12 – A version of the rhyme "Three Blind Mice" appears in Deuteromelia or The Seconde part of Musicks melodie (London). The editor and possible author of the verse is the teenage Thomas Ravenscroft.Iona and Peter Opie Iona Opie Peter The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes Oxford University Press 2nd 1997 978-0-19-860088-6 306
December 8 – The Sala Fredericiana, the first reading room of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan, opens. It is one of the first major libraries to have bookshelves ranged along the walls.The Library: A World History James W. P. Campbell London Thames & Hudson 2013 978-0-500-34288-6
December 21 – William Ames delivers a controversial sermon for St Thomas's Day criticizing the "heathenish debauchery" of Cambridge students during the Twelve Days of Christmas.
December 24 – John Marston, having retired from writing for the theater, is ordained a priest.
c. December – Ben Jonson's comedy Epicœne, or The silent woman is premièred at the Whitefriars Theatre in London by the Children of the Queen's Revels led by Nathan Field.
unknown date – Jacques Auguste de Thou's Historia sui temporis is placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.Neues Konversations-Lexikon: e. Wörterbuch d. allgemeinen Wissens. Thee - Zzubin https://books.google.com/books?id=I7lTAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA47 1872 Bibliograph.Inst. 47 de
New books
Prose
Douay–Rheims BibleSykes, J. B. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English Douai 6th 1978 Oxford University Press 309
Charles Butler – The Feminine Monarchie, or the History of Bees
Thomas Dekker
Four Birds of Noah's Ark
The Gull's Hornbook
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega – Comentarios Reales de los IncasMargarita Zamora Language, Authority, and Indigenous History in the Comentarios Reales de Los Incas https://books.google.com/books?id=n2H8zReWVVMC&pg=PA43 27 May 1988 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-35087-7 43
Edward Grimeston – A General History of the Netherlands
Hugo Grotius – Mare liberum
Johannes Kepler – Astronomia nova
Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola – Conquista de las Islas Molucas
Marc Lescarbot – Histoire de la Nouvelle-FranceZecher Carla Marc Lescarbot Reads Jacques Cartier: Colonial History in the Service of Propaganda L'Esprit Créateur 2008 48 1 107–119 0014-0767 26289459
Thomas Middleton
Sir Robert Sherley his Entertainment in Cracovia (translation)
The Two Gates of Salvation
William Rowley – A Search for Money
St. Francis de Sales – Introduction à la vie dévote (Introduction to the Devout Life)
Wang Qi (王圻) and Wang Siyi (王思义) – Sancai Tuhui (三才圖會, Illustrations of the Three Powers)
Drama
Anonymous – Every Woman in Her Humour (published)
Robert Armin (published)
The History of the Two Maids of More-clacke
The Italian Tailor and his Boy
Fulke Greville – Mustapha (published)
Ben Jonson
(and collaborators?) – The Case is Altered (published)
Epicœne, or The silent woman
William Shakespeare (published)
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Troilus and Cressida
Poetry
Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo – La Patrona de Madrid restituida
Samuel Daniel – Civil Wars (first complete edition, revised)William-Carew Hazlitt Prefaces, Dedications, Epistles Selected from Early English Books 1540-1701 https://books.google.com/books?id=M90E-QrvIoAC&pg=PA214 1874 Whittigham & Wilkins 214
William Shakespeare – The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint
Births
February 10 – Sir John Suckling, English poet (died 1642)University of Nebraska (Lincoln campus). Graduate College Abstracts of Doctoral Dissertations https://books.google.com/books?id=IywYAQAAIAAJ 1953 University of Nebraska 136
February 18 – Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English historian (died 1674)Richard Lawrence Ollard Clarendon and His Friends https://books.google.com/books?id=6lMeAAAAIAAJ 1988 Atheneum 978-0-689-11731-2 362
August 19 – Jean Rotrou, French poet and dramatist (died 1650)François Guizot Guizot (M., François) Corneille and His Times https://books.google.com/books?id=rhlq1fwCnWMC&pg=PA333 1852 R. Bentley 978-0-8046-1569-3 333
October 5 – Paul Fleming, German poet (died 1640)
October 19 – Gerrard Winstanley, English religious and political writer (died 1676)
December 24 – Philip Warwick, English politician and memoirist (died 1683)
unknown date – Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède, French novelist and dramatist (died 1663)Jean Chrétien Ferdinand Hoefer, Nouvelle biographie générale, vol XXVIII, Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1859, p.447-9.
probable – Barbara Blaugdone, English Quaker autobiographer (died 1705)Betty Travitsky Patrick Cullen Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler Life Writings: Volume 2 https://books.google.com/books?id=iruOAAAAMAAJ 1 January 2000 Ashgate 978-0-7546-0209-5 xx
Deaths
January 21 – Joseph Justus Scaliger, French Protestant writer (born 1540)
March 9 – William Warner, English poet (born c. 1558)
August 22 – Judah Loew ben Bezalel, Jewish mystic and philosopher (born 1525)
October 19 – Jacobus Arminius, Dutch theologian (born 1560)Hugo Grotius Hugo Grotius, Ordinum Hollandiae AC Westfrisiae Pietas (1613): Critical Edition with English Translation and Commentary https://books.google.com/books?id=bP1_TZh36YwC&pg=PA16 1995 BRILL 90-04-10385-6 16
December 4 – Alexander Hume, Scottish poet (born c. 1560)
December – Barnabe Barnes, English poet (born c. 1571)D. L. Kirkpatrick Reference Guide to English Literature: Introductions; Writers A-G https://books.google.com/books?id=g8cUAQAAIAAJ 1991 St. James Press 978-1-55862-078-0 216
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