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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1626.

Events

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • December 27 – Izaak Walton marries Rachel Floud (died 1640).

New books

Prose

  • Francis Bacon – The New Atlantis
  • Nicholas Breton – Fantastickes
  • Alonso de Castillo Solórzano – Jornadas alegres
  • Robert Fludd – Philosophia Sacra
  • Marie de Gournay – Les Femmes et Grief des Dames (The Ladies' Grievance)
  • 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
  • Tirso de Molina – La Huerta de San Juan
  • James Shirley – The Maid's Revenge; The Brothers

Births

  • January – Robert Howard, English dramatist and politician (died 1698)
  • February 5 – Madame de Sévigné, French letter writer (died 1696)
  • March 12 – John Aubrey, English antiquary and writer (died 1697)
  • July 25 – Gerard Brandt, Dutch dramatist and historian (died 1685)
  • September 8 – Simon Patrick, English theologian and bishop (died 1707)
  • October 6 – Géraud de Cordemoy, French historian, philosopher and lawyer (died 1684)
  • Unknown dates
  • Elizabeth Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater, English poet and dramatist (died 1663)
  • Alonso de Olmedo y Ormeño, Spanish actor and dramatist (died 1682)

Deaths

  • February – William Rowley, English dramatist (born c. 1585)
  • February 28 – Cyril Tourneur, English dramatist (born 1575)
  • September 25
  • Lancelot Andrewes, English scholar and bishop (born 1555)
  • Théophile de Viau, French poet and dramatist (born 1590)
  • October 19 (estimated) – Béroalde de Verville, French poet and novelist (born 1556)
  • December 8 – Sir John Davies, English poet (born 1569)
  • unknown date – Samuel Purchas, English miscellanist and travel writer (born c. 1577)
  • probable – Nicholas Breton, English poet and novelist (born c. 1545)

References