1611 in literature
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The year 1611 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

  • January 1 - Oberon, the Faery Prince
    Oberon, the Faery Prince
    Oberon, the Faery Prince was a masque written by Ben Jonson, with costumes, sets and stage effects designed by Inigo Jones, and music by Alfonso Ferrabosco and Robert Johnson...

    , a masque
    Masque
    The masque was a form of festive courtly entertainment which flourished in 16th and early 17th century Europe, though it was developed earlier in Italy, in forms including the intermedio...

     written by Ben Jonson
    Ben Jonson
    Benjamin Jonson was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satirical plays, particularly Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, which are considered his best, and his lyric poems...

     and designed by Inigo Jones
    Inigo Jones
    Inigo Jones is the first significant British architect of the modern period, and the first to bring Italianate Renaissance architecture to England...

    , is performed at Whitehall Palace.
  • February 3 - Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly
    Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly
    Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly was a Jacobean era masque, written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones, with music by Alfonso Ferrabosco...

    , another Jonson/Jones masque, is staged at Whitehall.
  • November 1 - The King's Men
    King's Men (playing company)
    The King's Men was the company of actors to which William Shakespeare belonged through most of his career. Formerly known as The Lord Chamberlain's Men during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, it became The King's Men in 1603 when King James ascended the throne and became the company's patron.The...

     perform The Tempest
    The Tempest
    The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–11, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set on a remote island, where Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place,...

    at Whitehall Palace.
  • November 5 - The King's Men perform The Winter's Tale
    The Winter's Tale
    The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare, originally published in the First Folio of 1623. Although it was grouped among the comedies, some modern editors have relabelled the play as one of Shakespeare's late romances. Some critics, among them W. W...

    at Whitehall Palace.
  • December 26 - The King's Men return to Court with Beaumont and Fletcher
    Beaumont and Fletcher
    Beaumont and Fletcher were the English dramatists Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, who collaborated in their writing during the reign of James I ....

    's A King and No King
    A King and No King
    A King and No King is a Jacobean era stage play, a tragicomedy written by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher and first published in 1619. It has traditionally been among the most highly-praised and popular works in the canon of Fletcher and his collaborators.The play's title became almost...

  • December 27 - Queen Anne's Men
    Queen Anne's Men
    Queen Anne's Men was a playing company, or troupe of actors, in Jacobean era London. -Formation:...

     act one of their most popular plays, Greene's Tu Quoque
    Greene's Tu Quoque
    Greene's Tu Quoque, also known as The City Gallant, is a Jacobean era stage play, a comedy written by John Cooke. The play was a major popular success upon its premier, and became something of a legend in the theatre lore of the seventeenth century.-Performance:Cooke's play was performed by Queen...

    .
  • Juan Ruiz de Alarcón
    Juan Ruiz de Alarcón
    Juan Ruiz de Alarcón y Mendoza , one of the greatest Novohispanic dramatists of the Golden Age, was born in New Spain .-Genealogy:...

     returns to Spain from Mexico.

New books

  • Jacques Bongars
    Jacques Bongars
    Jacques Bongars , French scholar and diplomatist, was born at Orléans, and was brought up in the reformed faith. He obtained his early education at Marburg and Jena, and returning to France continued his studies at Orléans and Bourges...

     - Gesta Dei per Francos
  • Thomas Coryat
    Thomas Coryat
    Thomas Coryat was an English traveller and writer of the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean age. He is principally remembered for two volumes of writings he left regarding his travels, often on foot, through Europe and parts of Asia...

     - Coryat's Crudities
    Coryat's Crudities
    Coryat's Crudities: Hastily gobled up in Five Moneth's Travels is a travelogue published in 1611 by Thomas Coryat of Odcombe, an English traveller and mild eccentric.- History :...

     hastily gobbled up in Five Months Travels in France, Italy, &c
  • John Donne
    John Donne
    John Donne 31 March 1631), English poet, satirist, lawyer, and priest, is now considered the preeminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are notable for their strong and sensual style and include sonnets, love poetry, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs,...

     - An Anatomy of the World
  • King James Version of the Bible
  • Samuel Rowlands
    Samuel Rowlands
    Samuel Rowlands , English author of pamphlets in prose and verse, which reflect the follies and humours of the lower middle-class life of his time, seems to have had no contemporary literary reputation; but his work throws considerable light on the development of popular literature and social life...

     - The Knave of Clubs
  • John Speed
    John Speed
    John Speed was an English historian and cartographer.-Life:He was born at Farndon, Cheshire, and went into his father's tailoring business where he worked until he was about 50...

    :
    • The History of Great Britain
    • The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain (map atlas)

New drama

  • Francis Beaumont
    Francis Beaumont
    Francis Beaumont was a dramatist in the English Renaissance theatre, most famous for his collaborations with John Fletcher....

     and John Fletcher
    John Fletcher (playwright)
    John Fletcher was a Jacobean playwright. Following William Shakespeare as house playwright for the King's Men, he was among the most prolific and influential dramatists of his day; both during his lifetime and in the early Restoration, his fame rivalled Shakespeare's...

     - A King and No King
    A King and No King
    A King and No King is a Jacobean era stage play, a tragicomedy written by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher and first published in 1619. It has traditionally been among the most highly-praised and popular works in the canon of Fletcher and his collaborators.The play's title became almost...

  • George Chapman
    George Chapman
    George Chapman was an English dramatist, translator, and poet. He was a classical scholar, and his work shows the influence of Stoicism. Chapman has been identified as the Rival Poet of Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Minto, and as an anticipator of the Metaphysical Poets...

     - May Day
    May Day (play)
    May Day is an early seventeenth-century stage play, a comedy written by George Chapman that was first published in 1611.May Day enters the historical record when it was printed in a quarto edition by the stationer John Browne. This was the sole edition of the play prior to the nineteenth century...

    published
  • John Cooke (?) - Greene's Tu Quoque
    Greene's Tu Quoque
    Greene's Tu Quoque, also known as The City Gallant, is a Jacobean era stage play, a comedy written by John Cooke. The play was a major popular success upon its premier, and became something of a legend in the theatre lore of the seventeenth century.-Performance:Cooke's play was performed by Queen...

  • Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton
    Thomas Middleton
    Thomas Middleton was an English Jacobean playwright and poet. Middleton stands with John Fletcher and Ben Jonson as among the most successful and prolific of playwrights who wrote their best plays during the Jacobean period. He was one of the few Renaissance dramatists to achieve equal success in...

     - The Roaring Girl
    The Roaring Girl
    The Roaring Girl is a Jacobean stage play, a comedy written by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker ca. 1607-10.The play was first published in quarto in 1611, printed by Nicholas Okes for the bookseller Thomas Archer...

    published
  • Thomas Dekker - If This Be Not a Good Play, the Devil Is In It
  • Thomas Heywood
    Thomas Heywood
    Thomas Heywood was a prominent English playwright, actor, and author whose peak period of activity falls between late Elizabethan and early Jacobean theatre.-Early years:...

     - The Golden Age published
  • Ben Jonson
    Ben Jonson
    Benjamin Jonson was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satirical plays, particularly Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, which are considered his best, and his lyric poems...

    • Oberon, the Faery Prince
      Oberon, the Faery Prince
      Oberon, the Faery Prince was a masque written by Ben Jonson, with costumes, sets and stage effects designed by Inigo Jones, and music by Alfonso Ferrabosco and Robert Johnson...

    • Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly
      Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly
      Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly was a Jacobean era masque, written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones, with music by Alfonso Ferrabosco...

  • Johannes Messenius
    Johannes Messenius
    Johannes Messenius was a Swedish historian, dramatist and university professor. He was born in the village of Freberga, in Stenby parish in Östergötland, and died in Oulu, in modern-day Finland.-Childhood:...

     - Disa
  • Anthony Munday
    Anthony Munday
    Anthony Munday was an English dramatist and miscellaneous writer. The chief interest in Munday for the modern reader lies in his collaboration with Shakespeare and others on the play Sir Thomas More and his writings on Robin Hood.-Biography:He was once thought to have been born in 1553, because...

     - Chryso-Thriambos
  • Thomas Middleton
    Thomas Middleton
    Thomas Middleton was an English Jacobean playwright and poet. Middleton stands with John Fletcher and Ben Jonson as among the most successful and prolific of playwrights who wrote their best plays during the Jacobean period. He was one of the few Renaissance dramatists to achieve equal success in...

     (attributed to) - The Second Maiden's Tragedy
    The Second Maiden's Tragedy
    The Second Maiden's Tragedy is a Jacobean play that survives only in manuscript. It was written in 1611, and performed in the same year by the King's Men. The manuscript that survives is the copy that was sent to the censor, and therefore includes his notes and deletions...

  • William Shakespeare
    William Shakespeare
    William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...

     - The Tempest
    The Tempest
    The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–11, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set on a remote island, where Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place,...

    (consensus date)
  • Cyril Tourneur
    Cyril Tourneur
    Cyril Tourneur was an English dramatist who enjoyed his greatest success during the reign of King James I of England. His best-known work is The Revenger's Tragedy , a play which has alternatively been attributed to Thomas Middleton.-Life:Cyril Tourneur was possibly the son of Captain Richard...

     - The Atheist's Tragedy
    The Atheist's Tragedy
    The Atheist's Tragedy, or the Honest Man's Revenge is a Jacobean era stage play, a tragedy written by Cyril Tourneur and first published in 1611. It is the only dramatic work recognized by the consensus of modern scholarship as the undisputed work of Tourneur, "one of the more shadowy figures of...

    published

Poetry

See also 1611 in poetry
1611 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works:* Richard Brathwaite, The Golden Fleece...

  • Richard Braithwaite
    Richard Braithwaite
    Richard Braithwaite or Brathwait was an English poet.He was born near Kendal, and educated at Oxford. He is believed to have served with the Royalist army in the Civil War...

     - The Golden Fleece
  • Emilia Lanier
    Emilia Lanier
    Emilia Lanier, also spelled Lanyer, was the first Englishwoman to assert herself as a professional poet through her single volume of poems, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum...

     - Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum

Births

  • September 1 - William Cartwright, dramatist (died 1643)
  • October 22 - Jacques Esprit
    Jacques Esprit
    Jacques Esprit , sometimes called abbé Esprit despite never having been ordained a priest, was a French moralist and writer.-Biography:...

     ("abbé Esprit"), moralist (died 1677)
  • October 26 - Antonio Coello
    Antonio Coello
    Antonio Coello was a Spanish dramatist and poet. He entered the household of the duke de Albuquerque, and after some years of service in the army received the order of Santiago in 1648...

    , dramatist and poet (died 1652)
  • date unknown
    • Richard Alleine
      Richard Alleine
      Richard Alleine was an English Puritan divine.He was born at Ditcheat, Somerset, where his father was rector. He was a younger brother of William Alleine, the saintly vicar of Blandford...

      , religious writer (died 1681)
    • Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy
      Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy
      Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy , French painter and writer on his art, was born in Paris, son of an apothecary.He was destined for the medical profession, and well educated in Latin and Greek; but, having a natural propensity for the fine arts, he would not apply to his intended vocation, and was...

      , writer on art (died 1665)
    • Thomas Urquhart
      Thomas Urquhart
      Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty was a Scottish writer and translator, most famous for his translation of Rabelais.-Life:...

      , translator (died c1660)
  • probable - Jean François Sarrazin
    Jean François Sarrazin
    Jean François Sarrazin , or Sarasin, was a French author.-Biography:Sarrazin was born at Hermanville, near Caen, the son of Roger Sarasin, treasurer-general at Caen....

    , satirist (died 1654)

Deaths

  • June 8 - Jean Bertaut
    Jean Bertaut
    Jean Bertaut , French poet, was born at Caen.He figures with Philippe Desportes in the disdainful couplet of Boileau on Ronsard:"Ce poëte orgueilleux, trébuché de si haut,Rendit plus retenus Desportes et Bertaut."...

    , poet (born 1552)
  • September 22 - Pedro de Ribadeneira
    Pedro de Ribadeneira
    Pedro de Ribadeneira was a Spanish hagiologist.He was born at Toledo, Spain. His father, Alvaro Ortiz de Cisneros, was the son of Pedro Gonzales Cedillo and grandson of Hernando Ortiz de Cisneros, whom Ferdinand IV had honoured with the governorship of Toledo and important missions.As a lad, Pedro...

    , ecclesiastical historian (born 1527)
  • date unknown
    • Benet Canfield
      Benet Canfield
      Father Benet or Benoit of Canfield , usually known as Benet Canfield, was an English Recusant and mystic. His Rule of Perfection fell under the disapproval of the Church in the early 17th century, and is therefore less well-known than Holy Wisdom by his contemporary and associate Augustine Baker...

      , mystical writer (born 1562)
    • Jan Huyghen van Linschoten
      Jan Huyghen van Linschoten
      Jan Huyghen van Linschoten was a Dutch Protestant merchant, traveller and historian. An alternate spelling of second name is Huijgen....

      , historian (born 1563)
    • Martin Ruland
      Martin Ruland the Younger
      Martin Ruland the Younger , also known as Martinus Rulandus or Martin Rulandt, was a German physician and alchemist....

      the younger, alchemist and editor of his father's writings
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