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17th century in literature
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Events
- 1660-1669 - Samuel Pepys writes his diary.
- 1667-1668 - Marianna Alcoforado writes her Letters of a Portuguese Nun.
New Books/Plays
- 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
- Twelfth Night, or What You Will by William Shakespeare
- Cynthia's Revells - Ben Jonson
- 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
- The True Law of Free Monarchies by King James I
- Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
- Othello by William Shakespeare
- All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare
- The Honest Whore (play) - Thomas Dekker
- The Malcontent (play) - John Marston
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
- Fourre Birds of Noahs Arke - Thomas Dekker
- The Gul's Hornebooke - Thomas Dekker
- Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
- The Faithful Shepherdess (play) - John Fletcher
- 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
- A Woman is a Weather-Cocke - Nathan Field
- 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
- Bartholomew Fair (play) - Ben Jonson
- Don Quixote, Part II - Miguel de Cervantes
- Ben Jonson's Works
- The Whole Works of Homer - George Chapman
- The Bloody Brother (?1616-30?) - John Fletcher, Ben Jonson, Philip Massinger, George Chapman (The drinking song)
- A Faire Quarrell (play) - Thomas Middleton and William Rowley
- History of Tythes - John Selden
- 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
- The Anatomy of Melancholy - Robert Burton
- Women Beware Women - Thomas Middleton
- The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh - Francis Bacon
- The Beggar's Bush - John Fletcher
- The Changeling - Thomas Middleton and William Rowley text
- A Fault in Friendship - Richard Brome
- Flowers of Sion - William Drummond of Hawthornden
- The Duchess of Malfi - John Webster
- The City-Night-Cap (comedy) - Robert Davenport
- Nero Caesar, or Monarchie Depraved - Edmund Bolton
- The Bataile of Agincourt - Michael Drayton
- First Steps up Parnassus - Michael Drayton
- Microcosmographie - John Earle
- The Roman Actor (play) - Philip Massinger
- The Tragedy of Albovine (play) - William D'Avenant
- The Conceited Pedlar - Thomas Randolph
- The Fair Maid of the West (play) - Thomas Heywood
- L'Allegro - John Milton
- The Fatal Dowry (play) - Nathan Field and Philip Massinger
- The City Madam - Philip Massinger
- The Muses’ Looking-Glass by Thomas Randolph
- 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
- Tottenham Court (play) - Thomas Nabbes
- The Royal Slave (play) - William Cartwright
- The Pleasant Historie of Albino and Bellama - Nathaniel Whiting
- Alcione (play) - Pierre du Ryer
- Dodona's Grove - James Howell
- The Bay Psalm Book, the first book printed in North America
- Joseph's partly-coloured Coat - Thomas Fuller
- 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)
- September: Playhouses closed in England by government order.
- Religio Medici Sir Thomas Browne
- Saul (play) by Pierre du Ryer
- Hesperides by Robert Herrick (poet)
- Andronicus or the Unfortunate Politician - Thomas Fuller
- Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Vulgar Errors - Sir Thomas Browne
- Philosophical Poems - Henry More
- Silex scintillans - Henry Vaughan
- Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes
- Reliquiae Wottonianiae - Sir Henry Wotton (posthumous)
- Jeune Alcidiane - Marin le Roy de Gomberville
- Theophilia or Love's Sacrifice (poetry) - Edward Benlowes
- The Cardinall (play) - James Shirley
- A History of New England - Edward Johnson
- The Compleat Angler - Izaak Walton
- Lucasta - Richard Lovelace (posthumous)
- Pharonnida - William Chamberlayne
- Tyrannus, or The Mode - John Evelyn
- 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).
- Love's Kingdom, with a Discourse of the English Stage - Richard Flecknoe
- Memoires of François Bassompierre (posthumous)
- Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners by John Bunyan
- Paradise Lost by John Milton
- Annus Mirabilis, the Year of Wonders 1666 - John Dryden
- Secret Love (play) - John Dryden
- Le Tartuffe - Molière
- Essay of Dramatick Poesie - John Dryden
- The Forced Marriage - Aphra Behn
- The Conquest of Granada - John Dryden
- Samson Agonistes - John Milton
- The Rehearsal (play) - George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham performed
- Marriage a la Mode by John Dryden
- The Rehearsal (play) by George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham published
- Navigation and Commerce - John Evelyn
- The Tragedy of Nero, Emperour of Rome (play) - Nathaniel Lee
- The Country Wife by William Wycherley
- Gerania; a New Discovery of a Little Sort of People, anciently discoursed of, called Pygmies by Joshua Barnes
- The Man of Mode (play) - George Etherege
- Phèdre - Racine
- All for Love - John Dryden
- The True Intellectual System of the Universe - Ralph Cudworth
- The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
- Anima Mundi - Charles Blount
- The Life and Death of Mr Badman - John Bunyan
- Miscellaneous Poems by Andrew Marvell (posthumous)
- Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden
- 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
- The Massacre of Paris (play) - Nathaniel Lee
- Table Talk - John Selden (posthumous)
- Amphitryon, or the Two Socias - John Dryden
- Essay Concerning Human Understanding - John Locke
- Memoires of the Navy by Samuel Pepys
- The Impartial Critick - John Dennis
- The Fatal Marriage (play) - Thomas Southerne
- A New Voyage Round the World - William Dampier
- The Campaigners (play) - Thomas D'Urfey
- 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
- 1621 - Andrew Marvell
- 1626 - John Aubrey
- 1628 - John Bunyan
- 1630 - Isaac Barrow
- 1631 - John Dryden
- 1633 - Samuel Pepys
- 1639 - Thomas Ellwood
- 1640 - Aphra Behn
- 1643 - Gilbert Burnet
- 1644 - Matsuo Basho
- 1648 - Robert Barclay
- 1651 - William Dampier
- 1652 - Thomas Otway
- 1657 - Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
- 1685 - George Berkeley
- 1689 - Samuel Richardson
Deaths
- 1600 - Richard Hooker (theologian)
- 1605 - John Stow
- 1607 - Sir Edward Dyer
- 1612 - Robert Armin
- 1616 - William Shakespeare; Francis Beaumont; Richard Hakluyt
- 1621 - Guillaume du Vair
- 1622 - Molière
- 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
- 1638 - Robert Aytoun
- 1640 - Philip Massinger
- 1641 - Augustine Baker
- 1643 - William Cartwright
- 1644 - Francis Quarles
- 1647 - Francis Meres
- 1648 - George Abbot; Vincent Voiture
- 1658 - Pierre du Ryer
- 1660 - Thomas Urquhart
- 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
Links
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Last updated: 11-05-2004 12:30:30