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The year
1609 in literature
involved some significant events.
Contents
1
Events
2
New books
3
New drama
4
New poetry
5
Births
6
Deaths
Events
On January 1, the
Children of the Blackfriars
perform
Middleton
's
A Trick to Catch the Old One
at Court.
On July 28, the
Sea Venture
is wrecked in Bermuda - thought to be the inspiration for Shakespeare's
The Tempest
.
William Ames
delivers a controversial sermon on St Thomas's Day.
Samuel Daniel
completes the eighth and last book of his epic poem,
Civil Wars
.
Jacques Auguste de Thou
's
Historia sui temporis
is placed on the
Index Librorum Prohibitorum
.
The
Sala Fredericiana
, the first reading room of the
Biblioteca Ambrosiana
in Milan, opens to the public.
Francis Tregian the Younger
is imprisoned for his Catholic sympathies, and begins copying out the
Fitzwilliam Virginal Book
.
New books
Douai Bible
Edward Grimeston -
A General History of the Netherlands
Hugo Grotius
-
Mare liberum
Thomas Middleton
Sir
Robert Sherley
his Entertainment in Cracovia
(translation)
The Two Gates of Salvation
Thomas Dekker
-
Four Birds of Noah's Ark
and
The Gull's Hornbook
Thomas Rowlands -
A Whole Crew of Kind Gossips
William Rowley
-
A Search for Money
New drama
Anonymous -
Every Woman in Her Humour
(published)
Robert Armin
-
The Italian Tailor and his Boy
(published)
Fulke Greville
-
Mustapha
(published)
Ben Jonson
(and collaborators?) -
The Case is Altered
(published)
William Shakespeare
-
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
and
Troilus and Cressida
(published)
New poetry
Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo
-
La Patrona de Madrid restituida
William Shakespeare
-
The Sonnets
and
A Lover's Complaint
Births
February 10
- Sir
John Suckling
, poet (died
1642
)
February 18
-
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
, historian (died
1674
)
August 19
-
Jean Rotrou
, dramatist (died
1650
)
October 5
-
Paul Fleming
, poet (died
1640
)
December 24
-
Philip Warwick
, politician and memoirist (died
1683
)
date unknown
-
Gerrard Winstanley
, political writer (died
1676
)
probable
-
Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède
, novelist and dramatist (died
1663
)
Deaths
January 21
-
Joseph Justus Scaliger
, French Protestant writer (born
1540
)
March 9
-
William Warner
, poet (born c
1558
)
August 22
-
Judah Loew ben Bezalel
, Jewish mystic and philosopher (born
1525
)
October 19
-
Jacobus Arminius
, theologian (born
1560
)
December 4
-
Alexander Hume
, poet (born c
1560
)
December
-
Barnabe Barnes
, poet (born c
1568
)
probable
-
Mateo Alemán
, Spanish novelist and man of letters (born
1547
)
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