1618 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1618.

Events

• January - 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.
• January 4 - Sir Francis Bacon is appointed Lord Chancellor by King James I of England.^[1]
• April 6 (Easter Monday) - The King's Men perform Twelfth Night at Court.
• April 7 - The King's Men perform The Winter's Tale at court.
• July - Ben Jonson sets out to walk to Scotland.^[2]

New books

• 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
  • Themis aurea
• Daniel Mögling - Speculum Sophicum Rhodo-Stauroticum
• 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

New drama

• Anonymous - The Tragedy of Amurath
• Jakob Ayrer (died 1605) - Opus Theatricum published
• Guillén de Castro y Bellvis - Comedias, part 1
• Lope de Vega
  • La moza de cántaro ("The pitcher girls")
  • El rey don Pedro en Madrid
• Nathan Field - Amends for Ladies published
• John Fletcher - The Loyal Subject
• Peter Heylin - Theomachia (in Latin)
• Barten Holyday - Technogamia
• Ben Jonson - masques
  • Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue
  • For the Honour of Wales

Poetry

• Jacob Cats - Emblemata
• Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar - Rimas
• John Taylor - The Pennylesse Pilgrimage

Births

• March 23 – Ferrante Pallavicino, Italian satirist (died 1644)
• April – Agustín Moreto y Cavana, Spanish dramatist and priest (died 1661)
• Unknown dates
  • Thomas Blount, English antiquary and lexicographer, (died 1679)
  • Abraham Cowley, English poet (died 1667)
  • Raffaello Fabretti, Italian antiquary (died 1700)
  • Isaac Vossius, Dutch scholar and librarian (died 1689)
• Probable year of birth – Jacques Chausson, French writer and criminal (died 1661)

Deaths

• July – John Davies of Hereford, Anglo-Welsh poet (born c. 1565)
• July 26 – Martinus Smiglecius, Polish Jesuit philosopher (born 1563)
• August 23 – Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero, Dutch poet (born 1585)
• September 28 – Joshua Sylvester, English poet (born 1563)
• October 29 – Sir Walter Ralegh, English adventurer and author (executed, born c. 1554)
• Unknown dates
  • François de Boivin, French chronicler
  • Richard Stanihurst, Irish translator of Virgil (born 1547)
  • Jacobus Taurinus, Dutch theologian (born 1576)
• Probable year – Bento Teixeira, Portuguese poet (born c. 1561)

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