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See also: 17th century in poetry Baroque literature Early Modern literature 16th century in literature 1700 in literature 18th century in literature list of years in literature Contents 1 Events and trends 2 New books and plays 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Wikisource reference work 6 See also 7 External links Events and trends[edit] History of modern literature By decade List of years in literature Early modern by century 16th 17th Mid-modern by century 18th 19th 20th–21st century Modernism Structuralism Deconstruction Poststructuralism Postmodernism Post-colonialism Hypertexts By region Africa Moroccan Nigerian South African Americas American Argentine Brazilian Canadian Colombian Cuban Jamaican Mexican Peruvian Asia Bengali Bangladeshi English Chinese Gujarati Hindi Indian Indian English Japanese Kannada Kashmiri Korean Malayalam Marathi Pakistani Pakistani English Pashto Punjabi Sindhi Tamil Telugu Urdu Vietnamese Australasia Australian New Zealand Europe Related topics History of science fiction Literature by country History of theater History of ideas Intellectual history  Literature portal v t e 1605–15 – Miguel de Cervantes writes the two parts of Don Quixote. 1616: April – Death of both William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes. 1630-51: William Bradford writes Of Plymouth Plantation, journals that are considered the most authoritative account of the Pilgrims and their government. 1660–69 – Samuel Pepys writes his diary. 1667–68 – Marianna Alcoforado writes her Letters of a Portuguese Nun. 1671–96 – Madame de Sévigné writes her famous letters. Metaphysical poets German literature of the Baroque period New books and plays[edit] 1600 Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare England's Helicon (anthology) – including work by Edmund Spenser, Michael Drayton, Thomas Lodge, Philip Sidney and others Old Fortunatus – Thomas Dekker The Spanish Moor's Tragedy – Thomas Dekker, John Marston, and William Haughton 1601 Twelfth Night, or What You Will by William Shakespeare Cynthia's Revels – Ben Jonson Disputationes Metaphysicae by Francisco Suárez first published Satiromastix – Thomas Dekker 1602 Rymes by Lope de Vega Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare Antonio and Mellida (play) – John Marston Mirum in Modum (poetry) – John Davies of Hereford Satiromastix (play) – Thomas Dekker and John Marston A Survey of Cornwall – Richard Carew 1603 The True Law of Free Monarchies by King James VI and I Ane Godlie Dreame (poem) by Elizabeth Melville published in Edinburgh Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare Othello by William Shakespeare The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe (published) 1604 All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare The Honest Whore (play) – Thomas Dekker The Malcontent (play) – John Marston 1605 Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare The Dutch Courtesan (play) – John Marston The Tragedy of Philotas (play) – Samuel Daniel The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare Don Quixote (El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha), Part I – Miguel de Cervantes Epistle concerning the Excellencies of the English Tongue – Richard Carew 1606 Macbeth by William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare 1607 A Woman Killed with Kindness (play) – Thomas Heywood Bussy D'Ambois (play) – George Chapman Michaelmas Terme (play) – Thomas Middleton The Knight of the Burning Pestle (play) – Francis Beaumont The Famous History of Sir Thomas Wyat (play) – Thomas Dekker and John Webster The Legend of Great Cromwell – Michael Drayton Pericles, Prince of Tyre by William Shakespeare The Revenger's Tragedy by Thomas Middleton 1608 Coriolanus by William Shakespeare A Nest of Ninnies – Robert Armin Humour out of Breathe (play) – John Day The Belman of London (play) – Thomas Dekker The Merry Devil of Edmonton (play) – anonymous; has been attributed to William Shakespeare, Michael Drayton and others. 1609 The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare Jersulam Conquered (epic poem) by Lope de Vega Fourre Birds of Noahs Arke – Thomas Dekker 1610 Sidereus Nuncius by Galileo Galilei Cymbeline by William Shakespeare The Faithful Shepherdess (play) – John Fletcher 1611 Fuente Ovejuna (play) – Lope de Vega The Authorized Version (King James version) of the Bible The Tempest by William Shakespeare Catiline his Conspiracy (play) – Ben Jonson The Roaring Girle (play) – Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton 1612 Four Soluloquies – Lope de Vega El comendador de Ocaña (Ocaña's mayor) – Lope de Vega A Woman is a Weather-Cocke – Nathan Field 1613 Soledades – Luis de Góngora La dama boba (the fool lady) – Lope de Vega The Dog in the Manger (play) – Lope de Vega Henry VIII by William Shakespeare Tears on the Death of Moeliades – William Drummond of Hawthornden The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois – George Chapman Purchas, his Pilgrimage; or, Relations of the World and the Religions observed in all Ages – Samuel Purchas 1614 Bartholomew Fair (play) – Ben Jonson La Lira by Giambattista Marino Fama fraternitatis Roseae Crucis oder Die Bruderschaft des Ordens der Rosenkreuzer – Johannes Valentinus Andreae 1615 Don Quixote, Part II – Miguel de Cervantes El caballero de Olmedo (The knight from Olmedo) (play) – Lope de Vega Confessio oder Bekenntnis der Societät und Bruderschaft Rosenkreuz – Johannes Valentinus Andreae 1616 Ben Jonson's Works The Whole Works of Homer – George Chapman Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz Anno 1459 – Johannes Valentinus Andreae Rollo, Duke of Normandy (also known as The Bloody Brother) (?1616–30?) – John Fletcher, Ben Jonson, Philip Massinger, George Chapman (The drinking song) 1617 Warenar (play) by Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft A Faire Quarrell (play) – Thomas Middleton and William Rowley 1618 History of Tythes – John Selden Amends for Ladies (play) – Nathan Field 1619 A King and No King (play) – Beaumont and Fletcher The Maid's Tragedy (play) – Beaumont and Fletcher The Shoemaker's Holiday – Thomas Deloney The Custome of the Countrey – John Fletcher and Philip Massinger Reipublicae Christianopolitanae descriptio – Johannes Valentinus Andreae 1620 Philaster – Beaumont and Fletcher 1621 The Anatomy of Melancholy – Robert Burton Women Beware Women – Thomas Middleton El vergonzoso en palacio – Tirso de Molina The Countess of Montgomery's Urania – Lady Mary Wroth 1622 The Heir (play) – Thomas May The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh – Francis Bacon The French Disease – Richard Brome The Beggar's Bush – John Fletcher El tejedor de Segovia – Juan Ruiz de Alarcón The Changeling – Thomas Middleton and William Rowley text 1623 L'Adone by Giambattista Marino Love, honour and power (play) – Pedro Calderón de la Barca The Duchess of Malfi – John Webster First Folio – William Shakespeare 1624 Circe (poem) bu Lope de Vega Nero Caesar, or Monarchie Depraved – Edmund Bolton The Sun's Darling – John Ford 1625 De jure belli ac pacis by Hugo Grotius Complete Essays – Francis Bacon Les Bergeries – Racan 1626 El Buscón – Francisco de Quevedo 1627 England's schim (play) – Pedro Calderón de la Barca The Bataile of Agincourt – Michael Drayton First Steps up Parnassus – Michael Drayton 1628 Microcosmographie – John Earle 1629 The Roman Actor (play) – Philip Massinger La Dama Duende (play) – Pedro Calderón de la Barca The Tragedy of Albovine (play) – William D'Avenant 1630 The Conceited Pedlar – Thomas Randolph 1631 The punishment without vengeance (play) – Lope de Vega 1632 L'Allegro – John Milton La Dorotea – Lope de Vega The Fatal Dowry (play) – Nathan Field and Philip Massinger Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems by Galileo Galilei The Muses’ Looking-Glass by Thomas Randolph 1633 A New Way to Pay Old Debts (play) – Philip Massinger Love's Sacrifice (play) – John Ford The Gamester (play) – James Shirley The Temple (poetry) – George Herbert 1634 Tottenham Court (play) – Thomas Nabbes 1636 Life is a dream (play) – Pedro Calderón de la Barca Le Cid (play) – Pierre Corneille 1637 La Vega del Parnaso (Parnasos' river bank) – Lope de Vega Discourse on the Method – René Descartes 1638 Two New Sciences by Galileo Galilei Alcione (play) – Pierre du Ryer 1639 Argalus and Parthenia (play) – Henry Glapthorne The City Match – Jasper Mayne 1640 Horace (play) – Pierre Corneille The Bay Psalm Book, the first book printed in North America Joseph's partly-coloured Coat – Thomas Fuller 1641 Meditations on First Philosophy – René Descartes Episcopacy by Divine Right – Joseph Hall The Cardinall (play) – James Shirley (first extant edition, 1652) A Joviall Crew (play) – Richard Brome (first extant edition, 1652) 1642 September: Playhouses closed in England by government order. Religio Medici Sir Thomas Browne Saul (play) by Pierre du Ryer 1644 Principles of Philosophy – René Descartes Areopagitica by John Milton 1646 Andronicus or the Unfortunate Politician – Thomas Fuller Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Vulgar Errors – Sir Thomas Browne 1647 Philosophical Poems – Henry More 1648 The Amorous War – Jasper Mayne Hesperides by Robert Herrick (poet) 1649 Eikon Basilike – John Gauden 1650 Silex scintillans – Henry Vaughan 1651 El alcalde de Zalamea – Pedro Calderón de la Barca Leviathan – Thomas Hobbes Reliquiae Wottonianiae – Sir Henry Wotton (posthumous) Jeune Alcidiane – Marin le Roy de Gomberville 1652 Brief Character of the Low Countries – Owen Feltham Theophilia or Love's Sacrifice (poetry) – Edward Benlowes The Cardinall (play) – James Shirley 1653 A History of New England – Edward Johnson The Compleat Angler – Izaak Walton Poems and Fancies – Margaret Cavendish The Princess Cloria – Percy Herbert, 2nd Baron Powis 1654 Lucifer (play) – Joost van den Vondel Parlhenissa, a novel – Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery 1655 L'Étourdi ou les Contretemps first play by Molière 1656 El gran teatro del mundo (World's great theatre) (play) – Pedro Calderón de la Barca Nature's Pictures – Margaret Cavendish Oceana by James Harrington 1657 Guárdate del agua mansa (Keep out from silent waters) – Pedro Calderón de la Barca Katharina von Georgien (play) by Andreas Gryphius 1658 Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial – Sir Thomas Browne The Garden of Cyrus -Sir Thomas Browne 1659 Lucasta – Richard Lovelace (posthumous) Pharonnida – William Chamberlayne 1661 Elementa jurisprudentiae universalis libri duo by Samuel von Pufendorf 1662 A new edition of the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England (this edition remains the officially authorised book to the present day). 1664 La Thébaïde (play) – Jean Racine 1665 Alexandre le Grand (Alexander the Great) (play) – Jean Racine Memoires of François Bassompierre (posthumous) 1666 Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners by John Bunyan 1667 Paradise Lost by John Milton Andromaque by Jean Racine Annus Mirabilis, the Year of Wonders 1666 – John Dryden Secret Love (play) – John Dryden 1668 Le Tartuffe – Molière The Miser – Molière Simplicius Simplicissimus – Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen Cyprianus Anglicanus – Peter Heylin Essay of Dramatick Poesie – John Dryden Observations upon Experimental Philosophy – Margaret Cavendish 1670 Pensées by Blaise Pascal The Conquest of Granada – John Dryden 1671 Madame de Sévigné writes her first letter Samson Agonistes – John Milton The Rehearsal (play) – George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham performed Hayy ibn Yaqdhan by Ibn Tufail – translated into Latin by Edward Pococke the Younger as Philosophus Autodidactus 1672 Bajacet (play) by Jean Racine Marriage à la mode by John Dryden The Rehearsal (play) by George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham published Hayy ibn Yaqdhan by Ibn Tufail – translated into Dutch by Johannes Bouwmeester 1674 Iphigénie (play) by Jean Racine The Tragedy of Nero, Emperour of Rome (play) – Nathaniel Lee 1675 The Country Wife by William Wycherley Gerania; a New Discovery of a Little Sort of People, anciently discoursed of, called Pygmies by Joshua Barnes 1676 The Man of Mode (play) – George Etherege English-Adventures by a Person of Honor – Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery 1677 Phèdre – Jean Racine Treatise of the Art of War – Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery 1678 All for Love – John Dryden The True Intellectual System of the Universe – Ralph Cudworth The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Threnodia Carolina – Sir Thomas Herbert 1679 Anima Mundi – Charles Blount 1680 The Life and Death of Mr Badman – John Bunyan 1681 Miscellaneous Poems by Andrew Marvell (posthumous) Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden 1682 The Life of an Amorous Man (好色一代男, Kōshoku Ichidai Otoko) by Ihara Saikaku 1685 Five Women Who Loved Love (好色五人女, Kōshoku Gonin Onna) by Ihara Saikaku 1686 Hayy ibn Yaqdhan by Ibn Tufail – translated into English by George Ashwell The Life of an Amorous Woman (好色一代女, Kōshoku Ichidai Onna) by Ihara Saikaku 1687 Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica - Isaac Newton The Hind and the Panther – John Dryden The Hind and the Panther Transversed to the Story of the Country and the City Mouse – Matthew Prior Bellamira, or The Mistress (play) – Sir Charles Sedley The Great Mirror of Male Love (The Encyclopedia of Male Love) (男色大鑑, Nanshoku Okagami) by Ihara Saikaku 1688 The Eternal Storehouse of Japan (日本永代蔵, Nippon Eitaigura) by Ihara Saikaku 1689 The Massacre of Paris (play) – Nathaniel Lee Table Talk – John Selden (posthumous) 1690 Amphitryon, or the Two Socias – John Dryden An Essay Concerning Human Understanding – John Locke Memoires of the Navy by Samuel Pepys 1691 Athalie (play) – Jean Racine 1692 Reckonings that Carry Men Through the World or This Scheming World (世間胸算用, Seken Munazan'yō) by Ihara Saikaku 1693 The Impartial Critick – John Dennis 1694 The Fatal Marriage (play) – Thomas Southerne 1696 Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-Simon starts writings his Memoirs 1697 A New Voyage Round the World – William Dampier 1698 The Campaigners (play) – Thomas D'Urfey 1699 Dialogues of the Dead – William King and Charles Boyle Births[edit] 1600 – Marin le Roy de Gomberville 1601 – Baltasar Gracián 1602 – Jean-Jacques Boissard 1603 – Pierre Corneille 1605 – Thomas Browne 1607 – Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla 1608 – Padre António Vieira/ John Milton 1609 – Jean Rotrou 1611 – William Cartwright; Thomas Urquhart 1613 – John Cleveland 1615 – Tanneguy Lefebvre 1617 – Ralph Cudworth 1620 – Lucy Hutchinson 1621 – Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen 1622 – Molière 1623 – Blaise Pascal 1625 – Thomas Corneille 1626 – Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné 1627 – John Flavel 1628 – Miguel de Molinos 1630 – Isaac Barrow 1631 – John Dryden 1632 – John Locke 1632 – Baruch Spinoza 1633 – Samuel Pepys 1639 – Thomas Ellwood 1640 – Aphra Behn 1642 – Isaac Newton 1643 – Gilbert Burnet 1644 – Matsuo Bashō 1646 – Gottfried Leibniz 1648 – Robert Barclay 1651 – William Dampier 1652 – Thomas Otway 1657 – Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle 1667 – Jonathan Swift 1668 – Alain-René Lesage 1675 – Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon 1681 – Robert Keith 1685 – George Berkeley 1689 – Samuel Richardson 1694 – Voltaire 1698 – Metastasio Deaths[edit] 1600 – Richard Hooker (theologian) 1605 – John Stow 1607 – Sir Edward Dyer 1612 – Juan de la Cueva; Robert Armin 1615 – Mateo Alemán 1616 – William Shakespeare; Miguel de Cervantes; Francis Beaumont; Richard Hakluyt 1621 – Guillaume du Vair 1623 – William Camden 1624 – Stephen Gosson 1625 – John Fletcher; Thomas Lodge 1626 – Lancelot Andrewes; Samuel Purchas 1627 – Luis de Góngora 1631 – Michael Drayton; Guillén de Castro y Bellvis 1633 – Abraham Fraunce 1634 – George Chapman 1635 – Lope de Vega; Thomas Randolph; Richard Corbet; John Hall (son-in-law of Shakespeare) 1638 – Robert Aytoun 1639 – Juan Ruiz de Alarcón 1640 – Philip Massinger; Robert Burton 1641 – Augustine Baker 1643 – William Cartwright 1644 – Luis Vélez de Guevara; Francis Quarles 1645 – Francisco de Quevedo; William Lithgow 1647 – Francis Meres 1648 – Tirso de Molina; Alonso de Castillo Solórzano; George Abbot; Vincent Voiture 1650 – René Descartes 1658 – Baltasar Gracián; Pierre du Ryer 1660 – Thomas Urquhart 1661 – María de Zayas y Sotomayor 1662 – François le Métel de Boisrobert 1667 – Georges de Scudéry 1672 – Anne Bradstreet; Tanneguy Lefebvre 1673 – Molière 1674 – Marin le Roy de Gomberville 1676 – Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen 1678 – Andrew Marvell 1679 – Thomas Hobbes 1681 – Pedro Calderón de la Barca 1682 – Thomas Browne 1685 – Thomas Otway 1688 – John Bunyan; Ralph Cudworth 1689 – Aphra Behn 1691 – Richard Baxter; John Flavel 1696 – Miguel de Molinos; Madame de Sévigné Wikisource reference work[edit]  The First Half of the Seventeenth Century (1906) by Herbert J. C. Grierson. Periods of European Literature series, vol. 7. George Edward Bateman Saintsbury, ed. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons. 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