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''See also:'' 16th century in literature

★ other events of the 17th century

★ 18th century in literature, 1700 in literature,
and list of years in literature.

Contents

Events and trends

New books and plays

Births

Deaths

External links

Events and trends

★ 1660-1669 - Samuel Pepys writes his diary.

★ 1667-1668 - Marianna Alcoforado writes her ''Letters of a Portuguese Nun''.

★ Metaphysical poets

★ German literature of the Baroque period

New books and plays

:1600

★ ''Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'' by William Shakespeare

★ ''England's Helicon'' (anthology) - including work by Edmund Spenser, Michael Drayton, Thomas Lodge, Philip Sidney and others

★ ''Old Fortunatus'' - Thomas Dekker

★ ''The Spanish Moor's Tragedy'' - Thomas Dekker, John Marston, and William Haughton
:1601

★ ''Twelfth Night, or What You Will'' by William Shakespeare

★ ''Cynthia's Revels'' - Ben Jonson

★ ''Satiromastix'' - Thomas Dekker
:1602

★ ''Troilus and Cressida'' by William Shakespeare

★ ''Antonio and Mellida'' (play) - John Marston

★ ''Mirum in Modum'' (poetry) - John Davies of Hereford

★ ''Satiromastix'' (play) - Thomas Dekker and John Marston

★ ''A Survey of Cornwall'' - Richard Carew
:1603

★ ''The True Law of Free Monarchies'' by King James I

★ ''Measure for Measure'' by William Shakespeare

★ ''Othello'' by William Shakespeare

★ ''The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus'' by Christopher Marlowe (published)
:1604

★ ''All's Well That Ends Well'' by William Shakespeare

★ ''The Honest Whore'' (play) - Thomas Dekker

★ ''The Malcontent'' (play) - John Marston
:1605

★ ''Timon of Athens'' by William Shakespeare

★ ''The Dutch Courtesan'' (play) - John Marston

★ ''The Tragedy of Philotas'' (play) - Samuel Daniel

★ ''The Tragedy of King Lear'' by William Shakespeare

★ ''Don Quixote'' (''El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha''), Part I - Miguel de Cervantes

★ ''Epistle concerning the Excellencies of the English Tongue'' - Richard Carew
:1606

★ ''Macbeth'' by William Shakespeare

★ ''Antony and Cleopatra'' by William Shakespeare

★ The King James Version of the Holy Bible
:1607

★ ''A Woman Killed with Kindness'' (play) - Thomas Heywood

★ ''Bussy D'Ambois'' (play) - George Chapman

★ ''Michaelmas Terme'' (play) - Thomas Middleton

★ ''The Knight of the Burning Pestle'' (play) - Francis Beaumont

★ ''The Famous History of Sir Thomas Wyat'' (play) - Thomas Dekker and John Webster

★ ''The Legend of Great Cromwell'' - Michael Drayton

★ ''Pericles, Prince of Tyre'' by William Shakespeare

★ ''The Revenger's Tragedy'' by Cyril Tourneur or Thomas Middleton
:1608

★ ''Coriolanus'' by William Shakespeare

★ ''A Nest of Ninnies'' - Robert Armin

★ ''Humour out of Breathe'' (play) - John Day

★ ''The Belman of London'' (play) - Thomas Dekker

★ ''The Merry Devil of Edmonton'' (play) - anonymous; has been attributed to William Shakespeare, Michael Drayton and others.
:1609

★ ''The Winter's Tale'' by William Shakespeare

★ ''Fourre Birds of Noahs Arke'' - Thomas Dekker

★ ''The Gul's Hornebooke'' - Thomas Dekker
:1610

★ ''Cymbeline'' by William Shakespeare

★ ''The Faithful Shepherdess'' (play) - John Fletcher
:1611

★ The Authorized Version (King James version) of the Bible

★ ''The Tempest'' by William Shakespeare

★ ''Catiline his Conspiracy'' (play) - Ben Jonson

★ ''The Roaring Girle'' (play) - Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton
:1612

★ ''A Woman is a Weather-Cocke'' - Nathaniel Field
:1613

★ ''Henry VIII'' by William Shakespeare

★ ''Tears on the Death of Moeliades'' - William Drummond of Hawthornden

★ ''The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois'' - George Chapman

★ ''Purchas, his Pilgrimage; or, Relations of the World and the Religions observed in all Ages'' - Samuel Purchas
:1614

★ ''Bartholomew Fair'' (play) - Ben Jonson

★ ''Fama fraternitatis Roseae Crucis oder Die Bruderschaft des Ordens der Rosenkreuzer'' - Johannes Valentinus Andreae
:1615

★ ''Don Quixote'', Part II - Miguel de Cervantes

★ ''Confessio oder Bekenntnis der Societät und Bruderschaft Rosenkreuz'' - Johannes Valentinus Andreae
:1616

★ ''Ben Jonson's Works''

★ ''The Whole Works of Homer'' - George Chapman

★ ''Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz Anno 1459'' - Johannes Valentinus Andreae

★ ''Rollo, Duke of Normandy'' (also known as ''The Bloody Brother'') (?1616-30?) - John Fletcher, Ben Jonson, Philip Massinger, George Chapman (The drinking song)
:1617

★ ''A Faire Quarrell'' (play) - Thomas Middleton and William Rowley
:1618

★ ''History of Tythes'' - John Selden

★ ''Amends for Ladies'' (play) - Nathaniel Field
:1619

★ ''A King and No King'' (play) - Beaumont and Fletcher

★ ''The Maid's Tragedy'' (play) - Beaumont and Fletcher

★ ''The Shoemaker's Holiday'' - Thomas Deloney

★ ''The Custome of the Countrey'' - John Fletcher and Philip Massinger

★ ''Reipublicae Christianopolitanae descriptio'' - Johannes Valentinus Andreae
:1620

★ ''Philaster'' - Beaumont and Fletcher
:1621

★ ''The Anatomy of Melancholy'' - Robert Burton

★ ''Women Beware Women'' - Thomas Middleton

★ ''El vergonzoso en palacio'' - Tirso de Molina
:1622

★ ''The Heir'' (play) - Thomas May

★ ''The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh'' - Francis Bacon

★ ''The French Disease'' - Richard Brome

★ ''The Beggar's Bush'' - John Fletcher

★ ''El tejedor de Segovia'' - Juan Ruiz de Alarcón

★ ''The Changeling'' - Thomas Middleton and William Rowley text
:1623

★ ''A Fault in Friendship'' - Richard Brome

★ ''Flowers of Sion'' - William Drummond of Hawthornden

★ ''The Duchess of Malfi'' - John Webster

★ ''First Folio'' - William Shakespeare
:1624

★ ''The City-Night-Cap'' (comedy) - Robert Davenport

★ ''Nero Caesar, or Monarchie Depraved'' - Edmund Bolton

★ ''The Sun's Darling'' - John Ford
:1625

★ ''A Game at Chess '' - Thomas Middleton

★ ''Complete Essays'' - Francis Bacon

★ ''Les Bergeries '' - Racan
:1627

★ ''The Bataile of Agincourt'' - Michael Drayton

★ ''First Steps up Parnassus'' - Michael Drayton
:1628

★ ''Microcosmographie'' - John Earle
:1629

★ ''The Roman Actor'' (play) - Philip Massinger

★ ''The Saint's Cordial'' - Richard Sibbes

★ ''The Tragedy of Albovine'' (play) - William D'Avenant
:1630

★ ''The Conceited Pedlar'' - Thomas Randolph
:1631

★ ''The Fair Maid of the West'' (play) - Thomas Heywood
:1632

★ ''L'Allegro'' - John Milton

★ ''The Fatal Dowry'' (play) - Nathaniel Field and Philip Massinger

★ ''The City Madam'' - Philip Massinger

★ ''The Muses’ Looking-Glass'' by Thomas Randolph
:1633

★ ''A New Way to Pay Old Debts'' (play) - Philip Massinger

★ ''Love's Sacrifice'' (play) - John Ford

★ ''The Gamester'' (play) - James Shirley

★ ''The Temple'' (poetry) - George Herbert
:1634

★ ''Tottenham Court'' (play) - Thomas Nabbes
:1636

★ ''The Royal Slave'' (play) - William Cartwright
:1637

★ ''The Pleasant Historie of Albino and Bellama'' - Nathaniel Whiting
:1638

★ ''Alcione'' (play) - Pierre du Ryer
:1639

★ ''Argalus and Parthenia'' (play) - Henry Glapthorne

★ ''The City Match'' - Jasper Mayne
:1640

★ ''Dodona's Grove'' - James Howell

★ The Bay Psalm Book, the first book printed in North America

★ ''Joseph's partly-coloured Coat'' - Thomas Fuller
:1641

★ ''Episcopacy by Divine Right'' - Joseph Hall

★ ''The Cardinall'' (play) - James Shirley (first extant edition, 1652)

★ ''A Joviall Crew'' (play) - Richard Brome (first extant edition, 1652)

★ ''Fragmenta Regalia, or Observations on the late Queen Elizabeth, her Times and Favourites'' - Sir Robert Naunton (posthumous)
:1642

★ September: Playhouses closed in England by government order.

★ ''Religio Medici'' Sir Thomas Browne

★ ''Saul'' (play) by Pierre du Ryer
:1644

★ ''Areopagitica'' by John Milton
:1646

★ ''Andronicus or the Unfortunate Politician'' - Thomas Fuller

★ Pseudodoxia Epidemica or ''Vulgar Errors'' - Sir Thomas Browne
:1647

★ ''Philosophical Poems'' - Henry More
:1648

★ ''The Amorous War'' - Jasper Mayne

★ ''Hesperides'' by Robert Herrick (poet)
:1649

★ ''Eikon Basilike'' - John Gauden
:1650

★ ''Silex scintillans'' - Henry Vaughan
:1651

★ ''Leviathan'' - Thomas Hobbes

★ ''Reliquiae Wottonianiae'' - Sir Henry Wotton (posthumous)

★ ''Jeune Alcidiane'' - Marin le Roy de Gomberville
:1652

★ ''Brief Character of the Low Countries'' - Owen Feltham

★ ''Theophilia or Love's Sacrifice'' (poetry) - Edward Benlowes

★ ''The Cardinall'' (play) - James Shirley
:1653

★ ''A History of New England'' - Edward Johnson

★ ''The Compleat Angler'' - Izaak Walton

★ ''Poems and Fancies'' - Margaret Cavendish
:1654

★ ''Lucifer'' (play) - Joost van den Vondel

★ ''Parlhenissa'', a novel - Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery
:1655

★ ''The Worlds Olio'' - Margaret Cavendish
:1656

★ ''Nature's Pictures'' - Margaret Cavendish

★ ''Oceana'' by James Harrington
:1657
:1658

★ Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial - Sir Thomas Browne

★ The Garden of Cyrus -Sir Thomas Browne
:1659

★ ''Lucasta'' - Richard Lovelace (posthumous)

★ ''Pharonnida'' - William Chamberlayne
:1661

★ ''Tyrannus, or The Mode'' - John Evelyn
:1662

★ A new edition of the ''Book of Common Prayer'' of the Church of England (this edition remains the officially authorised book to the present day).
:1664

★ ''Love's Kingdom, with a Discourse of the English Stage'' - Richard Flecknoe
:1665

★ ''A Moral Essay preferring Solitude to Public Employment'' - Sir George Mackenzie

★ ''Memoires'' of François Bassompierre (posthumous)
:1666

★ ''Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners'' by John Bunyan
:1667

★ ''Paradise Lost'' by John Milton

★ ''Annus Mirabilis, the Year of Wonders 1666'' - John Dryden

★ ''Secret Love'' (play) - John Dryden
:1668

★ ''Le Tartuffe'' - Molière

★ ''Cyprianus Anglicanus'' - Peter Heylin

★ ''Essay of Dramatick Poesie'' - John Dryden

★ ''Observations upon Experimental Philosophy'' - Margaret Cavendish
:1670

★ ''The Forced Marriage'' - Aphra Behn

★ ''The Conquest of Granada'' - John Dryden
:1671

★ ''Samson Agonistes'' - John Milton

★ ''The Rehearsal (play)'' - George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham performed
:1672

★ ''Marriage a la Mode'' by John Dryden

★ ''The Rehearsal (play)'' by George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham published
:1674

★ ''Navigation and Commerce'' - John Evelyn

★ ''The Tragedy of Nero, Emperour of Rome'' (play) - Nathaniel Lee
:1675

★ ''The Country Wife'' by William Wycherley

★ ''Gerania; a New Discovery of a Little Sort of People, anciently discoursed of, called Pygmies'' by Joshua Barnes
:1676

★ ''The Man of Mode'' (play) - George Etherege

★ ''English-Adventures by a Person of Honor'' - Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery
:1677

★ ''Phèdre'' - Jean Racine

★ ''Treatise of the Art of War'' - Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery
:1678

★ ''All for Love'' - John Dryden

★ ''The True Intellectual System of the Universe'' - Ralph Cudworth

★ ''The Pilgrim's Progress'' by John Bunyan

★ ''Threnodia Carolina'' - Sir Thomas Herbert
:1679

★ ''Anima Mundi'' - Charles Blount
:1680

★ ''The Life and Death of Mr Badman'' - John Bunyan
:1681

★ ''Miscellaneous Poems'' by Andrew Marvell (posthumous)

★ ''Absalom and Achitophel'' by John Dryden
:1687

★ ''The Hind and the Panther'' - John Dryden

★ ''The Hind and the Panther Transversed to the Story of the Country and the City Mouse'' - Matthew Prior

★ ''Bellamira, or The Mistress'' (play) - Sir Charles Sedley
:1689

★ ''The Massacre of Paris'' (play) - Nathaniel Lee

★ ''Table Talk'' - John Selden (posthumous)
:1690

★ ''Amphitryon, or the Two Socias'' - John Dryden

★ ''An Essay Concerning Human Understanding'' - John Locke

★ ''Memoires of the Navy'' by Samuel Pepys
:1693

★ ''The Impartial Critick'' - John Dennis
:1694

★ ''The Fatal Marriage'' (play) - Thomas Southerne
:1697

★ ''A New Voyage Round the World'' - William Dampier
:1698

★ ''The Campaigners'' (play) - Thomas D'Urfey
:1699

★ ''Dialogues of the Dead'' - William King and Charles Boyle

Births

★ 1600 - Marin le Roy de Gomberville

★ 1602 - Jean-Jacques Boissard

★ 1606 - Pierre du Ryer

★ 1611 - William Cartwright; Thomas Urquhart

★ 1613 - John Cleveland

★ 1615 - Tanneguy Lefebvre

★ 1617 - Ralph Cudworth

★ 1620 - Lucy Hutchinson

★ 1621 - Andrew Marvell

★ 1622 - Molière

★ 1626 - John Aubrey

★ 1627 - John Flavel

★ 1628 - John Bunyan

★ 1630 - Isaac Barrow

★ 1631 - John Dryden

★ 1633 - Samuel Pepys

★ 1639 - Thomas Ellwood

★ 1640 - Aphra Behn

★ 1643 - Gilbert Burnet

★ 1644 - Matsuo Bashō

★ 1648 - Robert Barclay

★ 1651 - William Dampier

★ 1652 - Thomas Otway

★ 1657 - Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

★ 1659 - John Asgill

★ 1681 - Robert Keith

★ 1685 - George Berkeley

★ 1689 - Samuel Richardson

Deaths

★ 1600 - Richard Hooker (theologian)

★ 1605 - John Stow

★ 1607 - Sir Edward Dyer

★ 1612 - Robert Armin

★ 1616 - William Shakespeare; Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra; Francis Beaumont; Richard Hakluyt

★ 1621 - Guillaume du Vair

★ 1623 - William Camden

★ 1624 - Stephen Gosson

★ 1625 - John Fletcher; Thomas Lodge

★ 1626 - Lancelot Andrewes; Samuel Purchas

★ 1631 - Michael Drayton; Guillén de Castro y Bellvis

★ 1633 - Abraham Fraunce

★ 1634 - George Chapman

★ 1635 - Lope de Vega; Thomas Randolph; Richard Corbet; John Hall (son-in-law of Shakespeare)

★ 1638 - Robert Aytoun

★ 1640 - Philip Massinger

★ 1641 - Augustine Baker

★ 1643 - William Cartwright

★ 1644 - Francis Quarles

★ 1645 - William Lithgow

★ 1647 - Francis Meres

★ 1648 - George Abbot; Vincent Voiture

★ 1658 - Pierre du Ryer

★ 1660 - Thomas Urquhart

★ 1662 - François le Métel de Boisrobert

★ 1667 - Georges de Scudéry

★ 1672 - Anne Bradstreet; Tanneguy Lefebvre

★ 1673 - Molière

★ 1674 - Marin le Roy de Gomberville

★ 1678 - Andrew Marvell

★ 1685 - Thomas Otway

★ 1688 - John Bunyan; Ralph Cudworth

★ 1689 - Aphra Behn

★ 1691 - Richard Baxter; John Flavel

External links

★ http://www.bartleby.com/216/10001.html