1609 in literature

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See also: 1608 in literature, other events of 1609, 1610 in literature, list of years in literature.

Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Non-fiction 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Events

• 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.

[edit] New books

• Douai Bible
• Thomas Middleton - Sir Robert Sherley his Entertainmnt in Cracovia (translation)
• Thomas Dekker - Fourre Birds of Noahs Arke and The Gul's Hornebooke

[edit] New drama

• Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher - Philaster
• Beaumont and Fletcher - The Coxcomb
• William Shakespeare - The Winter's Tale (performed)

[edit] Non-fiction

• William Rowley - A Search for Money

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)