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1626 in literature
Overview of the events of 1626 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1626.
- February – The King's Men premiere Ben Jonson's satire on the new newsgathering enterprise The Staple of News, his first new play in almost a decade, at the Blackfriars Theatre in London.[1]
- November – The deaths of Lancelot Andrewes and Nicholas Felton, Bishop of Ely, prompt John Milton, then a student at Cambridge, to write elegies in Latin for both.[2]
- December 27 – Izaak Walton marries Rachel Floud (died 1640).[3]
Prose
- Francis Bacon – The New Atlantis
- Nicholas Breton – Fantastickes
- Alonso de Castillo Solórzano – Jornadas alegres
- Robert Fludd – Philosophia Sacra[4]
- Marie de Gournay – Les Femmes et Grief des Dames (The Ladies' Grievance)[5]
- Francisco de Quevedo – El Buscón (first published edition – unauthorized)
Drama
- Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft – Baeto, oft oorsprong der Holanderen
- John Fletcher and collaborators – The Fair Maid of the Inn
- William Heminges – The Jews' Tragedy
- Jean Mairet – La Sylvie
- Philip Massinger – A New Way to Pay Old Debts
- Thomas May – Cleopatra
- Thomas Middleton – The Triumphs of Health and Prosperity[6]
- Tirso de Molina – La Huerta de San Juan
- James Shirley – The Maid's Revenge; The Brothers
- January – Robert Howard, English dramatist and politician (died 1698)
- February 5 – Madame de Sévigné, French letter writer (died 1696)[7]
- March 12 – John Aubrey, English antiquary and writer (died 1697)[8]
- July 25 – Gerard Brandt, Dutch dramatist and historian (died 1685)[9]
- September 8 – Simon Patrick, English theologian and bishop (died 1707)[10]
- October 6 – Géraud de Cordemoy, French historian, philosopher and lawyer (died 1684)[11]
- Unknown dates
- Elizabeth Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater, English poet and dramatist (died 1663)[12]
- Alonso de Olmedo y Ormeño, Spanish actor and dramatist (died 1682)
- February – William Rowley, English dramatist (born c. 1585)[13]
- February 28 – Cyril Tourneur, English dramatist (born 1575)[14]
- September 25
- Lancelot Andrewes, English scholar and bishop (born 1555)[15]
- Théophile de Viau, French poet and dramatist (born 1590)
- October 19 (estimated) – Béroalde de Verville, French poet and novelist (born 1556)[16]
- December 8 – Sir John Davies, English poet (born 1569)
- unknown date – Samuel Purchas, English miscellanist and travel writer (born c. 1577)[17]
- probable – Nicholas Breton, English poet and novelist (born c. 1545)[18]
- Ben Jonson (1999). Five Plays. Oxford University Press. pp. xviii. ISBN 978-0-19-283944-2.
- Barbara K. Lewalski (15 April 2008). The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 24–. ISBN 978-0-470-77684-1.
- Tara Hamling: "'An Arelome To This Hous For Ever': Monumental Fixtures and Furnishings..." Andrew Gordon and Thomas Rist (eds): The Arts of Remembrance in Early Modern England: Memorial Cultures... (Abingdon, Oxon/New York: Routledge, 2016 [2013]), p. 68.
- "The Collected Works of Thomas Middleton. Accessed 1 February 2013". Archived from the original on 2012-02-09. Retrieved 2013-02-01.
- Chevalier, Tracy (1997). Encyclopedia of the essay. London Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. p. 764. ISBN 9781884964305.
- John Britton (28 August 2014). A Memoir of John Aubrey. Cambridge University Press. p. 24. ISBN 978-1-108-07344-8.
- Alexander Chalmers (1812). The General Biographical Dictionary Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons. J. Nichols. p. 454.
- Overton, John Henry (1895). "Patrick, Simon (1626-1707)" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 44. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- Ablondi, Fred (2014-01-01). Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). Géraud de Cordemoy (Fall 2014 ed.).
- Haselkorn, Anne (1990). The Renaissance Englishwoman in print : counterbalancing the canon. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. p. 243. ISBN 9780870236907.
- Harold Bloom (1986). The New Moulton's Library of Literary Criticism: Elizabethan-Caroline. Chelsea House Publishers. p. 1158. ISBN 978-0-87754-781-5.
- Renaissance Drama. Macmillan International Higher Education. 1 November 1980. p. 115. ISBN 978-1-349-16424-0.
- Leonie James (2017). 'This Great Firebrand': William Laud and Scotland, 1617-1645. Boydell & Brewer. p. 32. ISBN 978-1-78327-219-8.
- Guillaume Colletet (1989). Vies des poètes tourangeaux. Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature. p. 17.
- Charles Henry Cooper (1861). Memorials of Cambridge. William Metcalfe. p. 112.
- Henry Morley (1891). Character Writings of the Seventeenth Century. G. Routledge. p. 238. ISBN 978-0-8274-2026-7.