1618 in literature

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The year 1618 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

Sir Francis Bacon is appointed Lord Chancellor by King James I of England.
Ben Jonson sets out to walk to Scotland.
The King's Men perform Twelfth Night at Court on Easter Monday, April 6, and The Winter's Tale on April 7.
Lady Hay and eight other Court ladies plan and rehearse a Ladies' Masque or Masque for Ladies, intended for a Twelfth Night performance; but the show is cancelled a few days prior to the holiday, either by King James or Queen Anne.

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley - Certain Precepts or Directions, For the Well-ordering and Carriage of a Man's Life
Renold Elstracke - Braziliologia
Vicente Espinel - Relaciones de la vida del escudero Marcos de Obregón
Robert Fludd - De Musica Mundana
Michael Maier - Atalanta Fugiens
Friedrich Nausea -A Treatise of Blazing Stars in General
Edmund Reeve - A Heptaglottology, that is A Treatise Concerning Seven Languages, to wit the Hebrew, Greek, Chaldean, Latin, Arabic, Syriac, Talmudicorabbinical
Angelus Sala - Opiologia, or A Treatise Concerning the Nature, Properties, True Preparation and Safe Use and Administration of Opium
Arthur Saul - The Famous Game of Chess-Play
John Selden - History of Tythes

Anonymous - The Tragedy of Amurath
Guillén de Castro y Bellvis - Comedias, part 1
Nathan Field - Amends for Ladies published
John Fletcher - The Loyal Subject
Peter Heylin - Theomachia (in Latin)
Barten Holyday - Technogamia
Ben Jonson
- Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue (masque)
- For the Honour of Wales (masque)

March 23 - Ferrante Pallavicino, satirist (died 1644)
April - Agustín Moreto y Cavana, dramatist (died 1661)
date unknown
- Thomas Blount (lexicographer) (died 1679)
- Abraham Cowley, poet (died 1667)
- Raffaello Fabretti, antiquarian author (died 1700)
- Richard Lovelace, Cavalier poet (died 1658)
- Isaac Vossius, librarian (died 1689)
probable - Jacques Chausson, French writer involved in a notorious criminal case (died 1661)

August 23 - Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, poet (born 1585)
September 28 - Joshua Sylvester, poet (born 1563)
October 29 - Sir Walter Raleigh, adventurer and author (executed) (born c1553)
date unknown
- François de Boivin, chronicler
- John Davies of Hereford, poet (born c1565)
- Richard Stanihurst, translator of Vergil (born 1547)
probable - Bento Teixeira, Portuguese author (born 1560)