1610 in literature
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The year 1610 in literature involved some significant events.
Events
- Thomas BodleyThomas BodleySir Thomas Bodley was an English diplomat and scholar, founder of the Bodleian Library, Oxford.-Biography:...
makes an agreement with the Stationers' Company of London to put a copy of every book registered with them into his new BodleianBodleian LibraryThe Bodleian Library , the main research library of the University of Oxford, is one of the oldest libraries in Europe, and in Britain is second in size only to the British Library...
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New books
- Jean BeguinJean BeguinJean Beguin was an iatrochemist noted for his 1610 Tyrocinium Chymicum , which many consider to be one of the first chemistry textbooks. In the 1615 edition of his textbook, Beguin made the first-ever chemical equation or rudimentary reaction diagrams, showing the results of reactions in which...
- Tyrocinium ChymicumTyrocinium ChymicumTyrocinium Chymicum was a published set of chemistry lecture notes started by Jean Beguin in 1610 in Paris, France. It has been suggested that it was the first chemistry text book... - Fourth edition of Foxe's Book of MartyrsFoxe's Book of MartyrsThe Book of Martyrs, by John Foxe, more accurately Acts and Monuments, is an account from a Protestant point of view of Christian church history and martyrology...
- John Healey - his translation of St Augustine of HippoAugustine of HippoAugustine of Hippo , also known as Augustine, St. Augustine, St. Austin, St. Augoustinos, Blessed Augustine, or St. Augustine the Blessed, was Bishop of Hippo Regius . He was a Latin-speaking philosopher and theologian who lived in the Roman Africa Province...
's The City of God - Sylvester Jourdan - A Discovery of the Barmudas, otherwise called the Ile of Divels
- Richard Rich - News from Virginia: the Lost Flock Triumphant
New drama
- Samuel DanielSamuel DanielSamuel Daniel was an English poet and historian.-Early life:Daniel was born near Taunton in Somerset, the son of a music-master. He was the brother of lutenist and composer John Danyel. Their sister Rosa was Edmund Spenser's model for Rosalind in his The Shepherd's Calendar; she eventually married...
- Tethys Festival or the Queenes Wake (masqueMasqueThe masque was a form of festive courtly entertainment which flourished in 16th and early 17th century Europe, though it was developed earlier in Italy, in forms including the intermedio...
) - John FletcherJohn Fletcher (playwright)John Fletcher was a Jacobean playwright. Following William Shakespeare as house playwright for the King's Men, he was among the most prolific and influential dramatists of his day; both during his lifetime and in the early Restoration, his fame rivalled Shakespeare's...
- The Faithful ShepherdessThe Faithful ShepherdessThe Faithful Shepherdess is a Jacobean era stage play, the work that inaugurated the playwriting career of John Fletcher. Though the initial production was a failure with its audience, the printed text that followed proved significant, in that it contained Fletcher's influential definition of... - Ben JonsonBen JonsonBenjamin Jonson was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satirical plays, particularly Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, which are considered his best, and his lyric poems...
- The AlchemistThe Alchemist (play)The Alchemist is a comedy by English playwright Ben Jonson. First performed in 1610 by the King's Men, it is generally considered Jonson's best and most characteristic comedy; Samuel Taylor Coleridge claimed that it had one of the three most perfect plots in literature...
; The Speeches at Prince Henry's BarriersThe Speeches at Prince Henry's BarriersThe Speeches at Prince Henry's Barriers, sometimes called The Lady of the Lake, is a masque or entertainment written by Ben Jonson in honour of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, the son and heir of King James I of England... - John MarstonJohn MarstonJohn Marston was an English poet, playwright and satirist during the late Elizabethan and Jacobean periods...
- HistriomastixHistriomastix (play)Histriomastix, or The Player Whipped is a late Elizabethan play, written by the satirist John Marston and acted in 1599. It was previously thought that the play was likely acted by the Children of Paul's, one of the companies of boy actors active at the time; but more recent research suggests that...
published - John Mason - The Turk published
Births
- January - Sir Sidney GodolphinSidney Godolphin (poet)Sidney Godolphin , was an English poet, courtier and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1628 and 1643. He died fighting in the Royalist army in the English Civil War.-Biography:...
, English poet (died 1643) - April 1 - Charles de Saint-ÉvremondCharles de Saint-ÉvremondCharles de Marguetel de Saint-Denis, seigneur de Saint-Évremond was a French soldier, hedonist, essayist and literary critic. After 1661, he lived in exile, mainly in England, as a consequence of his attack on French policy at the time of the peace of the Pyrenees . He is buried in Poets' Corner,...
, soldier, critic and essayist (died 1703) - July - Paul ScarronPaul ScarronPaul Scarron was a French poet, dramatist, and novelist. His precise birthdate is unknown, but he was baptized on July 4, 1610...
, poet, dramatist and novelist (died 1660) - July 28 (bapt.) - Henry GlapthorneHenry GlapthorneHenry Glapthorne was a Caroline era dramatist.Glapthorne was baptized in Cambridgeshire, the son of Thomas Glapthorne and Faith nee Hatcliff. His father was a bailiff of Lady Hatton, the wife of Sir Edward Coke...
, English dramatist (died c.1643) - December 18 - Charles du Fresne, sieur du CangeCharles du Fresne, sieur du CangeCharles du Fresne, sieur du Cange or Ducange was a distinguished philologist and historian of the Middle Ages and Byzantium....
, French philologist and historian (died 1688) - date unknown
- Richard BulstrodeRichard BulstrodeSir Richard Bulstrode was an English author, diplomat and soldier, a son of Edward Bulstrode .-Life and family:...
, English author and soldier (died 1711) - Edmund ChilmeadEdmund ChilmeadEdmund Chilmead was an English writer and translator, who produced both scholarly works and hack writing. He is also known as a musician.He studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he graduated M.A. in 1631...
, English writer and translator (died 1654) - Reinhold Curicke, historian of the Hanseatic League (died 1667)
- Li YuLi Yu (author)Li Yu , also known as Li Liweng was a Chinese playwright, novelist and publisher. Born in Rugao, he lived in late-Ming and early-Qing dynasties....
, controversial comic writer (died 1680) - Louis MaimbourgLouis MaimbourgLouis Maimbourg was a French Jesuit and historian.Born at Nancy, Maimbourg entered the Society of Jesus at the age of sixteen, and after studying at Rome became a classical master in the Jesuit college at Rouen. He afterwards devoted himself to preaching, but with only moderate success...
, historian (died 1686) - François-Eudes de MézerayFrançois-Eudes de MézerayFrançois Eudes de Mézeray was a French historian.He was born at Rye near Argentan, where his father was a surgeon.He had two brothers, one of whom, Jean-Eudes, was the founder of the order of the Eudists. François studied at the University of Caen, and completed his education at the College of Ste...
, French historian (died 1683) - Jan VosJan Vos (poet)Jan Jansz. Vos was a Dutch playwright and poet. A glassmaker by trade , he also played an important role as stage-manager and director of the theatre...
, Dutch poet and dramatist (died 1667)
- Richard Bulstrode
- probable - Jeremias de DekkerJeremias de DekkerJeremias de Dekker or Decker was a Dutch poet.Dekker was born in Dordrecht. His father was a native of Antwerp, who, having embraced the reformed religion, had been compelled to take refuge in the Netherlands...
, Dutch poet (died 1666)
Deaths
- July - Richard KnollesRichard KnollesRichard Knolles was an English historian, famous for his account of the Ottoman Empire, the first major description in the English language....
, historian (born c1545) - November 28 - Lorenzo ScupoliLorenzo ScupoliLorenzo Scupoli was the author of Il combattimento spirituale , one of the most important works of Catholic spirituality.-Life:...
, theologian (born c.1530) - date unknown
- Anne BaconAnne BaconAnne Bacon was an English gentlewoman and scholar. She made a lasting contribution to English religious literature with her translation from Latin of John Jewel's Apologie of the Anglican Church...
, English translator (born c. 1528) - Adam BergAdam Berg (publisher)Adam Berg was a German printer and publisher who is best remembered for his work as a music publisher and for his publication of Catholic religious texts. His publishing company was based in Munich, and he actively published music there from 1567–1597...
, printer and publisher (born 1540) - Georgios ChortatzisGeorgios ChortatzisGeorgios Chortatzis was a Greek dramatist in Cretan verse. He was, along with Vitsentzos Kornaros, one of the main representatives of a school of literature in the vernacular Cretan dialect that flourished in the late 16th and early 17th centuries under Venetian rule. His best known work is...
, verse dramatist (born c.1545) - Juan de la CuevaJuan de la CuevaJuan de la Cueva was a Spanish dramatist and poet.He was born in Seville of an aristocratic family.Towards 1579, he began writing for the stage. His plays, fourteen in number, were published in 1588, and are the earliest manifestations of the dramatic methods developed by Lope de Vega...
, poet and dramatist (born 1550) - Nikola Vitov GučetićNikola Vitov GuceticNikola Vitov Gučetić was a ragusan statesman, philosopher, science writer from the Republic of Ragusa and author of one of the first scientific dissertations regarding speleology.-Life:...
, philosopher and science writer (born 1549) - Yuan HongdaoYuan HongdaoYuan Hongdao was Chinese poet of the Ming Dynasty, and one of the Three Yuan Brothers. His life spanned nearly the whole of the Wanli period in Chinese history. Yuan was from Gong'an in Hukuang. His family had been military officials for generations. Yuan showed an interest in literature from...
, poet (born 1568)
- Anne Bacon
- probable
- Peter BalesPeter BalesPeter Bales , English calligrapher, one of the inventors of shorthand writing, was born in London in 1547, and is described by Anthony Wood as a "most dexterous person in his profession, to the great wonder of scholars and others"...
, inventor of shorthand (born 1547) - Alexander MontgomerieAlexander MontgomerieAlexander Montgomerie , Scottish Jacobean courtier and poet, or makar, born in Ayrshire. He was one of the principal members of the Castalian Band, a circle of poets in the court of James VI in the 1580s which included the king himself. Montgomerie was for a time in favour as one of the king's...
, poet (born c1545) - Philip StubbsPhilip StubbsPhilip Stubbs , English pamphleteer, was born about 1555.He was from Cheshire, possibly the area near Congleton. According to Anthony Wood he was educated at Cambridge and subsequently at Oxford, but did not take a degree and his name is not in university records. He is reputed to have been a...
, pamphleteer (born c1555)
- Peter Bales