1612 in literature

Overview of the events of 1612 in literature

Overview of the events of 1612 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1612.

## Events[edit]

* January 6 – Ben Jonson's masque Love Restored is performed.[1]
* January 12 – The King's Men and Queen Anne's Men unite for the first of two English Court performances in January, with Thomas Heywood's The Silver Age
* January 13 – The King's Men perform Heywood's The Rape of Lucrece.[2]
* February 2 – Queen Anne's Men return to court to play Greene's Tu Quoque.[3]
* May 11 – Shakespeare testifies in the Bellott v. Mountjoy lawsuit which involves his London landlord.
* November 6 – Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, eldest son and heir to King James I of England, dies of typhoid fever. His coterie of followers, which included literary figures like Ben Jonson and John Selden, are forced to seek other patrons.[4]
* unknown dates
* Thomas Shelton publishes The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-Errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha, the first translation of Cervantes' novel Don Quixote (first part) into English (or any other language).
* The Accademia della Crusca publishes the first dictionary of the Italian language.
* "Printers Bible": Some copies of the King James Version of the Bible printed in England this year contain an erratum with Psalm 119:161 reading "printers" (rather than "princes") "have persecuted me without a cause."

## New books[edit]

* Traiano Boccalini – Ragguagli di Parnasso[5]
* John Brinsley – Ludus literarius; or The Grammar Schoole[6]
* John Davies – Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued[7]
* John Davies of Hereford – The Picture of a Happy Man[8]
* Edward Grimeston
* The Generall Historie of Spaine (translated from French)
* The General History of the Magnificent State of Venice
* Thomas Heywood – An Apology for Actors[9]
* Antonius Magirus – Koock-boeck ofte Familieren kevken-boeck[10]
* William Strachey \- The Historie of Travaile Into Virginia Britannia[11]
* Francisco de Quevedo – La cuna y la sepultura[12]

## New drama[edit]

* George Chapman – The Widow's Tears published
* Robert Daborne – A Christian Turn'd Turk published[13]
* Nathan Field – A Woman is a Weathercock published[14]
* Ben Jonson – Love Restored (masque)
* John Webster – The White Devil published[15]

## Poetry[edit]

Main article: 1612 in poetry

* Michael Drayton – Poly-Olbion[15]
* Luis de Góngora – Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea (Fable of Polyphemus and Galatea)
* Expanded edition of The Passionate Pilgrim
* George Wither – Elegy on the death of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales

## Births[edit]

* February 6 – Antoine Arnauld, French theologian and philosopher (died 1694)[16]
* February 7 – Thomas Killigrew, English dramatist (died 1683)[17]
* February 8 – Samuel Butler, English poet and satirist (died 1680)[18]
* February 28 – John Pearson, English theologian and scholar (died 1686)
* March 4 (bapt.) – Jan Vos, Dutch poet and dramatist (died 1667)
* March 20 – Anne Bradstreet, née Dudley, English-born American poet (died 1672)
* unknown date – Edward King, English poet (died 1637)
* probable – John Rushworth, English lawyer and historian (died 1690)

## Deaths[edit]

* February – John Gerard (John Gerarde), English botanist and author of herbal (born c. 1545)
* March 16 – Thomas Holland, English theologian and Bible translator (born 1539)
* April 11 – Emanuel van Meteren, Flemish historian (born 1535)[19]
* June 1 – Carlos Félix, 6-year-old son of Lope de Vega.[20]
* July 29 – Jacques Bongars, French diplomat and scholar (born 1554)[21]
* August 4 – Hugh Broughton, English Biblical scholar (born 1549)
* September – Giovanni de' Bardi, Italian music theorist and critic (born 1534)
* September 24 – Johannes Lippius, German theologian, philosopher, composer, and music theorist (born 1585)[22]
* September 27 – Piotr Skarga (Piotr Poweski), Polish hagiographer (born 1536)[23]
* October 7 – Giovanni Battista Guarini, Italian poet (born 1538)[24]
* November 20 – Sir John Harington, English courtier, writer and inventor of flush toilet (born 1560)[25]

## References[edit]

1. ^ Chambers, E. K. (1923). The Elizabethan Stage. Vol. 3\. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 387.
2. ^ Thomas James King (1971). Shakespearean Staging, 1599-1642. Harvard University Press. p. 63\. ISBN 978-0-674-80490-6.
3. ^ John Pitcher (March 1999). Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. p. 329\. ISBN 978-0-8386-3805-7.
4. ^ Strong, Roy (1986). Henry, Prince of Wales and England's Lost Renaissance. London: Pimlico.
5. ^ Alan Houston; Steve Pincus (20 August 2001). A Nation Transformed: England After the Restoration. Cambridge University Press. p. 269\. ISBN 978-0-521-80252-9.
6. ^ John Roach (1998). A Regional Study of Yorkshire Schools, 1500-1820. E. Mellen Press. p. 145\. ISBN 978-0-7734-8250-0.
7. ^ Audrey Horning (16 December 2013). Ireland in the Virginian Sea: Colonialism in the British Atlantic. UNC Press Books. p. 185\. ISBN 978-1-4696-1073-3.
8. ^ John W. Cousin (1938). Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. Library of Alexandria. p. 169\. ISBN 978-1-4655-7188-5.
9. ^ Laura C. Lambdin; Robert T. Lambdin (2008). Arthurian Writers: A Biographical Encyclopedia. p. 146\. ISBN 978-0-313-34682-8.
10. ^ Joop Witteveen; Bart Cuperus (1998). Bibliotheca gastronomica: eten en drinken in Nederland en België 1474-1960 (in Dutch). Linnaeus. p. 227\. ISBN 978-90-6105-035-3.
11. ^ Lee Miller (2001). Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony. Arcade Publishing. p. 340\. ISBN 978-1-55970-584-4.
12. ^ Richard E. Chandler; Kessel Schwartz (1 September 1991). A New History of Spanish Literature. LSU Press. p. 319\. ISBN 978-0-8071-1735-4.
13. ^ Jacob Lopes Cardozo (1968). The Contemporary Jew in the Elizabethan Drama. B. Franklin. p. xiii.
14. ^ Lukas Erne (25 April 2013). Shakespeare and the Book Trade. Cambridge University Press. p. 102\. ISBN 978-0-521-76566-4.
15. ^ a b Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 243–248. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
16. ^ The History of Paris, from the Earliest Period to the Present Day. 1825. p. 424.
17. ^ Christopher Baker (2002). Absolutism and the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1720: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 206\. ISBN 978-0-313-30827-7.
18. ^ John Scott Clark (1974). A Study of English and American Writers: A Laboratory Method. AMS Press. p. 167\. ISBN 978-0-404-01559-6.
19. ^ Walpole Society (Great Britain) (1980). The ... Volume of the Walpole Society. Walpole Society. p. 205.
20. ^ Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Félix de Lope de Vega Carpio" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
21. ^ Keith Busby (1993). Les Manuscrits de Chrétien de Troyes. Rodopi. p. 98\. ISBN 90-5183-603-1.
22. ^ Benito V. Rivera (1980). German Music Theory in the Early 17th Century: The Treatises of Johannes Lippius. UMI Research Press. p. 3\. ISBN 978-0-8357-1074-9.
23. ^ Harvard Theological Studies. Scholars Press. 1995. p. 865\. ISBN 978-0-8006-7085-6.
24. ^ Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800. Gale Research Company. 2004. p. 1\. ISBN 978-0-7876-6968-3.
25. ^ Jason Scott-Warren (2001). Sir John Harington and the Book as Gift. Oxford University Press. p. 20\. ISBN 978-0-19-924445-4.