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1614 literature
July 2020
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1614.
Events
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January–June – In the first six months of the year, no London theatres operate on the South Bank of the Thames, causing a severe decline in demand for the watermen's taxi service. The watermen respond by proposing to limit the locations of the theaters around London, much to the actors' displeasure. John Taylor the Water Poet describes the controversy in his The True Cause of the Watermen's Suit Concerning Players.
January 25 – The Lady Elizabeth's Men perform the formerly controversial Eastward Ho at Court.Ben Jonson The Works of Ben Jonson: An historical survey of the text https://books.google.com/books?id=qbDTAAAAMAAJ 1967 Clarendon Press 193
April – Sir Francis Bacon's dual role as Member of Parliament and Attorney General is objected to by the Parliament of England.
May 24 – Lope de Vega becomes a priest.Félix de Lope de Vega Carpio
June 30 – Rebuilding of the Globe Theatre is complete.William Shakespeare John Fletcher King Henry VIII, Or, All is True https://books.google.com/books?id=NskTDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA45 1999 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-813001-7 45
August 15 – Pietro Della Valle lands in Constantinople, after leaving Venice to begin his travels.Eric Dursteler Venetians in Constantinople: Nation, Identity, and Coexistence in the Early Modern Mediterranean https://books.google.com/books?id=LF8uer6PMfAC&pg=PA1 2006 JHU Press 978-0-8018-8324-8 1
October 31 – The first performance of Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair is given at Philip Henslowe's newly opened Hope Theatre in London.Paola Pugliatti Alessandro Serpieri English Renaissance Scenes: From Canon to Margins https://books.google.com/books?id=TiBxQY_DwpYC&pg=PA59 2008 Peter Lang 978-3-03911-079-7 59
November 1 – The Lady Elizabeth's Men perform Bartholomew Fair at Court, the day after its première.
unknown dates
Luís de Sousa becomes a Dominican friar.
Izaak Walton moves from Chancery Lane to Fleet Street, London, where he opens a shop.Curtis Guild Abroad Again, Or, A Fresh Foray in Foreign Lands https://books.google.com/books?id=-yo2AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA62 1877 Lee and Shepard 62
John Webster's tragedy The Duchess of Malfi is first performed publicly, at the Globe Theatre, London.Clark Sandra Renaissance Drama Polity Cambridge, England 2007 12 0-7456-3311-0
Madeleine de Souvré marries the marquis de Sablé.
New books
Prose
Johannes Althusius – la Politica Methodice Digesta
Johannes Valentinus Andreae – la Fama fraternitatis Roseae Crucis de oder Die Bruderschaft des Ordens der Rosenkreuzer (at Kassel)
Christoph Besold – Signatura temporum
New edition of the King James Version of the Bible (in an easily read Roman typeface)
"Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda" – Second Part of Don Quixote (spurious)
Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo – es El Cavallero puntual
Lope de Vega – es Pastores de Belen: prosas y versos divinos
Heinrich Doergangk – la Institutiones in linguam hispanicam, admodum faciles, quales antehac nunquam visae
Michael Maier – la Arcana arcanissima
Samuel Purchas – Purchas, his Pilgrimage; or, Relations of the World and the Religions observed in all Ages
Drama
Anonymous – The Masque of Flowers
Samuel Daniel – Hymen's Triumph
Lope de Vega
es Amor secreto hasta celos
Fuenteovejuna (approximate date)
John Fletcher and William Shakespeare – The Two Noble Kinsmen
Ben Jonson – Bartholomew Fair, first performance on 31 October
Johannes Messenius – Blanckamäreta
Anthony Munday – Himatia-Poleos
Robert Tailor – The Hog Hath Lost His Pearl published
Poetry
1614 in poetry
William Browne – The Shepherd's Pipe
Miguel de Cervantes – es Viaje del Parnaso
Lope de Vega – es Rimas sacras
Births
October 12 – Henry More, English philosopher (died 1687)
Unknown date – Hallgrímur Pétursson, Icelandic poet (died 1674)
Probable year of birth – John Lilburne, English political writer and Leveller (died 1657)
Deaths
January 2 – Luisa Carvajal y Mendoza, Spanish poet and author (born 1556)
March 29 – Joshua Falk, Polish Hebrew scholar (born 1555)
April 3 – John Spenser, English classicist and cleric (born 1559)Richard Hooker The Works of that Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker: With an Account of His Life and Death https://books.google.com/books?id=y-tDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA104 1844 D. Appleton 104
June 17 – William Bathe, Irish writer and priest (born 1564)
July 1 – Isaac Casaubon, Genevan classicist and church historian (born 1559)Isaac Casaubon French scholar https://www.britannica.com/biography/Isaac-Casaubon Encyclopedia Britannica 8 April 2019 en
July 15 – Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, French historian and biographer (born c. 1540)
Unknown dates
Simon Grahame, Scottish miscellanist (born 1570)
Cristóbal de Virués, Spanish dramatist and poet (born 1550)
See also
English Renaissance theatre
References