1609 in literature

1609 in literature

The year 1609 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

*On January 1, the Children of the Blackfriars perform Middleton's "A Trick to Catch the Old One" at Court.
*On July 28, the "Sea Venture" is wrecked in Bermuda - thought to be the inspiration for Shakespeare's "The Tempest".
*William Ames delivers a controversial sermon on St Thomas's Day.
*Samuel Daniel completes the eighth and last book of his epic poem, "Civil Wars".
*Jacques Auguste de Thou's "Historia sui temporis" is placed on the "Index Librorum Prohibitorum".
*The "Sala Fredericiana", the first reading room of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan, opens to the public.
*Francis Tregian the Younger is imprisoned for his Catholic sympathies, and begins copying out the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book.

New books

*Douai Bible
*Edward Grimeston - "A General History of the Netherlands"
*Hugo Grotius - "Mare liberum"
*Thomas Middleton
**"Sir Robert Sherley his Entertainment in Cracovia" (translation)
**"The Two Gates of Salvation"
*Thomas Dekker - "Four Birds of Noah's Ark" and "The Gull's Hornbook"
*Thomas Rowlands - "A Whole Crew of Kind Gossips"
*William Rowley - "A Search for Money"

New drama

*Anonymous - "Every Woman in Her Humour" (published)
*Robert Armin - "The Italian Tailor and his Boy" (published)
*Fulke Greville - "Mustapha" (published)
*Ben Jonson (and collaborators?) - "The Case is Altered" (published)
*William Shakespeare - "Pericles, Prince of Tyre" and "Troilus and Cressida" (published)

New poetry

*Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo - "La Patrona de Madrid restituida"
*William Shakespeare - "The Sonnets" and "A Lover's Complaint"

Births

*February 10 - Sir John Suckling, poet (died 1642)
*February 18 - Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, historian (died 1674)
*August 19 - Jean Rotrou, dramatist (died 1650)
*October 5 - Paul Fleming, poet (died 1640)
*December 24 - Philip Warwick, politician and memoirist (died 1683)
*"date unknown" - Gerrard Winstanley, political writer (died 1676)
*"probable" - Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède, novelist and dramatist (died 1663)

Deaths

*January 21 - Joseph Justus Scaliger, French Protestant writer (born 1540)
*March 9 - William Warner, poet (born c1558)
*August 22 - Judah Loew ben Bezalel, Jewish mystic and philosopher (born 1525)
*October 19 - Jacobus Arminius, theologian (born 1560)
*December 4 - Alexander Hume, poet (born c1560)
*December - Barnabe Barnes, poet (born c1568)
*"probable" - Mateo Alemán, Spanish novelist and man of letters (born 1547)


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