- 1618 in literature
The year 1618 in literature involved some significant events.
Events
*Sir Francis Bacon is appointed Lord Chancellor by King
James I of England .
*Ben Jonson sets out to walk to Scotland.
*The King's Men perform "Twelfth Night " at Court on Easter Monday, April 6, and "The Winter's Tale " on April 7.
*Lady Hay and eight other Court ladies plan and rehearse a "Ladies' Masque" or "Masque for Ladies", intended for a Twelfth Night performance; but the show is cancelled a few days prior to the holiday, either by King James or Queen Anne.New books
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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"
*Friedrich Nausea -"A Treatise of Blazing Stars in General"
*Edmund Reeve - "A Heptaglottology, that is A Treatise Concerning Seven Languages, to wit the Hebrew, Greek, Chaldean, Latin, Arabic, Syriac, Talmudicorabbinical"
*Angelus Sala - "Opiologia, or A Treatise Concerning the Nature, Properties, True Preparation and Safe Use and Administration of Opium"
*Arthur Saul - "The Famous Game of Chess-Play"
*John Selden - "History of Tythes"New drama
*Anonymous - "The Tragedy of Amurath"
*Guillén de Castro y Bellvis - "Comedias", part 1
*Nathan Field - "Amends for Ladies" published
*John Fletcher - "The Loyal Subject "
*Peter Heylin - "Theomachia" (inLatin )
*Barten Holyday - "Technogamia "
*Ben Jonson
**"Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue " (masque )
**"For the Honour of Wales" (masque)Poetry
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Jacob Cats - "Emblemata"
*Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar - "Rimas"
*John Taylor - "The Pennylesse Pilgrimage"Births
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March 23 -Ferrante Pallavicino , satirist (died1644 )
*April -Agustín Moreto y Cavana , dramatist (died1661 )
*"date unknown"
**Thomas Blount (lexicographer) (died1679 )
**Abraham Cowley , poet (died1667 )
**Raffaello Fabretti , antiquarian author (died1700 )
**Richard Lovelace , Cavalier poet (died1658 )
**Isaac Vossius , librarian (died1689 )
*"probable" -Jacques Chausson , French writer involved in a notorious criminal case (died1661 )Deaths
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August 23 -Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero , poet (born1585 )
*September 28 -Joshua Sylvester , poet (born1563 )
*October 29 - SirWalter Raleigh , adventurer and author (executed) (born c1553 )
*"date unknown"
**François de Boivin , chronicler
**John Davies of Hereford , poet (born c1565 )
**Richard Stanyhurst , translator of Vergil (born1547 )
**Bento Teixeira , Portuguese author (born1560 )
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