1626 in literature

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

References

1. Ben Jonson. (1999). "Five Plays". Oxford University Press.
2. Barbara K. Lewalski. (15 April 2008). "The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography". John Wiley & Sons.
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. [https://books.google.com/books?id=BhEOAAAAQAAJ "Roberti Fludd ..." Philosophia sacra et vere christiana seu meteorologia cosmica (Google eBook) Accessed 1 February 2013]
5. [http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Grief_des_dames ''Grief des dames''.]
6. "The Collected Works of Thomas Middleton. Accessed 1 February 2013".
7. Chevalier, Tracy. (1997). "Encyclopedia of the essay". Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers.
8. John Britton. (28 August 2014). "A Memoir of John Aubrey". Cambridge University Press.
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.
10. {{cite DNB. Overton, John Henry
11. Ablondi, Fred. (2014-01-01). "Géraud de Cordemoy".
12. Haselkorn, Anne. (1990). "The Renaissance Englishwoman in print : counterbalancing the canon". University of Massachusetts Press.
13. Harold Bloom. (1986). "The New Moulton's Library of Literary Criticism: Elizabethan-Caroline". Chelsea House Publishers.
14. (1 November 1980). "Renaissance Drama". Macmillan International Higher Education.
15. Leonie James. (2017). "'This Great Firebrand': William Laud and Scotland, 1617-1645". Boydell & Brewer.
16. Guillaume Colletet. (1989). "Vies des poètes tourangeaux". Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature.
17. Charles Henry Cooper. (1861). "Memorials of Cambridge". William Metcalfe.
18. Henry Morley. (1891). "Character Writings of the Seventeenth Century". G. Routledge.