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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1619.

Events

  • March – After the death of Richard Burbage, his place as leading actor of the King's Men in London is filled by Joseph Taylor.
  • April – Ben Jonson visits the Scottish poet William Drummond of Hawthornden.
  • c. October – After the death of Samuel Daniel in Somerset, his place as Poet Laureate of the Kingdom of England is filled by Ben Jonson.
  • unknown dates
  • René Descartes has a dream that helps him develop his ideas on analytical geometry.
  • William Jaggard and Thomas Pavier publish in London the so-called False Folio, a collection of Shakespearean and pseudo-Shakespearean plays mostly with false imprints and dates.

New books

Prose

  • Johannes Valentinus Andreae
  • '
  • Turris Babel
  • Jacob Boehme – ' (On the Three Principles of Divine Being)
  • Philipp Clüver
  • Sardinia et Corsica Antiqua
  • Siciliae Antique libri duo
  • Robert Fludd – ' (The History of the Two Worlds, Volume 2)
  • Johannes Kepler – ' (an attack on Fludd's Neoplatonist cosmology)
  • John Pitseus – '
  • Samuel Purchas – Purchas his Pilgrim or Microcosmus, or the Historie of Man. Relating the Wonders of his Generation, Vanities in his Degeneration, Necessities of his Regenerations
  • Paolo Sarpi – History of the Council of Trent
  • John Taylor – A Kicksey Winsey, or, A Lerry Come-Twang
  • William Whately – A Bride-Bvsh; or a Direction for Married Persons. Plainely describing the Dvties common to both, and peculiar to each of them

Drama

  • Anonymous – Two Wise Men and All the Rest Fools (published)
  • Beaumont and Fletcher (published)
  • A King and No King
  • The Maid's Tragedy
  • Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero
  • De klucht van de koe
  • '
  • Lope de Vega – Fuente Ovejuna (published)
  • John Fletcher – The Humorous Lieutenant
  • John Fletcher and Philip Massinger – Sir John van Olden Barnavelt
  • Philip Massinger and Nathan Field – The Fatal Dowry (approximate date)
  • Thomas Middleton – The Masque of Heroes

Poetry

  • Robert Carliell – ' (a defence of the new Church of England)
  • George Wither – Fidelia

Births

  • March 6 – Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier and poet (died 1655)
  • June 24 – Rijcklof van Goens, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies 1678–81 and travel writer (died 1682)
  • November 7 – Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French biographer (died 1692)
  • December 28 – Antoine Furetière, French satirist (died 1688)
  • unknown dates
  • Morgan Llwyd, Welsh preacher, poet and writer (died 1659)
  • Shalom Shabazi, Jewish Yemeni poet (died 1720)
  • probable
  • William Chamberlayne, English poet, playwright, physician and Royalist soldier (died 1703)
  • Alice Curwen, English autobiographer and Quaker (died 1679)
  • Henry (Heinrich) Oldenburg, German-born editor, correspondent and Royal Society secretary (died 1677)

Deaths

  • February 9 – Lucilio Vanini, Italian philosopher (born 1585)
  • February 12 &ndash; Pierre de Larivey, Italian-born French dramatist (born 1549)
  • March 13 – Richard Burbage, English actor and theatre proprietor (born c. 1567)
  • July 12 – Olivier de Serres, French writer on agriculture and horticulture (born 1539)
  • October 14 – Samuel Daniel, English Poet Laureate and historian (born 1562)
  • October 18 – Petrus Gudelinus, Dutch jurist (born 1550)
  • October 19 – Fujiwara Seika, Japanese philosopher (born 1561)

probable

  • Ginés Pérez de Hita, Spanish novelist and poet (born c. 1544)
  • Pierre de La Primaudaye, French Protestant writer (born 1546)

References