1626 in literature

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

## Events

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* 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.[1]
* 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.[2]
* December 27 – Izaak Walton marries Rachel Floud (died 1640).[3]

## New books

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### Prose

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* Francis Bacon – The New Atlantis
* Nicholas Breton – Fantastickes
* Alonso de Castillo Solórzano – Jornadas alegres
* Robert Fludd – Philosophia Sacra[4]
* Marie de Gournay – Les Femmes et Grief des Dames (The Ladies' Grievance)[5]
* Francisco de Quevedo – El Buscón (first published edition – unauthorized)

### Drama

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* 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[6]
* Tirso de Molina – La Huerta de San Juan
* James Shirley – The Maid's Revenge; The Brothers

## Births

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* January – Robert Howard, English dramatist and politician (died 1698)
* February 5 – Madame de Sévigné, French letter writer (died 1696)[7]
* March 12 – John Aubrey, English antiquary and writer (died 1697)[8]
* July 25 – Gerard Brandt, Dutch dramatist and historian (died 1685)[9]
* September 8 – Simon Patrick, English theologian and bishop (died 1707)[10]
* October 6 – Géraud de Cordemoy, French historian, philosopher and lawyer (died 1684)[11]
* Unknown dates
* Elizabeth Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater, English poet and dramatist (died 1663)[12]
* Alonso de Olmedo y Ormeño, Spanish actor and dramatist (died 1682)

## Deaths

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* February – William Rowley, English dramatist (born c. 1585)[13]
* February 28 – Cyril Tourneur, English dramatist (born 1575)[14]
* September 25
* Lancelot Andrewes, English scholar and bishop (born 1555)[15]
* Théophile de Viau, French poet and dramatist (born 1590)
* October 19 (estimated) – Béroalde de Verville, French poet and novelist (born 1556)[16]
* December 8 – Sir John Davies, English poet (born 1569)
* unknown date – Samuel Purchas, English miscellanist and travel writer (born c. 1577)[17]
* probable – Nicholas Breton, English poet and novelist (born c. 1545)[18]

## References

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1. ^ Ben Jonson (1999). Five Plays. Oxford University Press. pp. xviii. ISBN 978-0-19-283944-2.
2. ^ Barbara K. Lewalski (15 April 2008). The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 24–. ISBN 978-0-470-77684-1.
3. ^ Tara Hamling: "'An Arelome To This Hous For Ever': Monumental Fixtures and Furnishings..." Andrew Gordon and Thomas Rist (eds): The Arts of Remembrance in Early Modern England: Memorial Cultures... (Abingdon, Oxon/New York: Routledge, 2016 [2013]), p. 68.
4. ^ "Roberti Fludd ..." Philosophia sacra et vere christiana seu meteorologia cosmica (Google eBook) Accessed 1 February 2013
5. ^ Grief des dames.
6. ^ "The Collected Works of Thomas Middleton. Accessed 1 February 2013". Archived from the original on 2012-02-09. Retrieved 2013-02-01.
7. ^ Chevalier, Tracy (1997). Encyclopedia of the essay. London Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. p. 764\. ISBN 9781884964305.
8. ^ John Britton (28 August 2014). A Memoir of John Aubrey. Cambridge University Press. p. 24\. ISBN 978-1-108-07344-8.
9. ^ Alexander Chalmers (1812). The General Biographical Dictionary Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons. J. Nichols. p. 454.
10. ^ Overton, John Henry (1895). "Patrick, Simon (1626-1707)" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 44\. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
11. ^ Ablondi, Fred (2014-01-01). Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). Géraud de Cordemoy (Fall 2014 ed.).
12. ^ Haselkorn, Anne (1990). The Renaissance Englishwoman in print : counterbalancing the canon. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. p. 243\. ISBN 9780870236907.
13. ^ Harold Bloom (1986). The New Moulton's Library of Literary Criticism: Elizabethan-Caroline. Chelsea House Publishers. p. 1158\. ISBN 978-0-87754-781-5.
14. ^ Renaissance Drama. Macmillan International Higher Education. 1 November 1980. p. 115\. ISBN 978-1-349-16424-0.
15. ^ Leonie James (2017). 'This Great Firebrand': William Laud and Scotland, 1617-1645. Boydell & Brewer. p. 32\. ISBN 978-1-78327-219-8.
16. ^ Guillaume Colletet (1989). Vies des poètes tourangeaux. Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature. p. 17.
17. ^ Charles Henry Cooper (1861). Memorials of Cambridge. William Metcalfe. p. 112.
18. ^ Henry Morley (1891). Character Writings of the Seventeenth Century. G. Routledge. p. 238\. ISBN 978-0-8274-2026-7. `{{cite book}}`: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)

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