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1621 in literature

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Overview of the events of 1621 in literature

Events from the year1621 in literature.

Events

January 27 – SirFrancis Bacon is created Viscount St Alban.^[a]
February 3 –John Chamberlain writes toSir Dudley Carleton telling him the anonymous author of the tractVox Populi has been revealed to be the radical preacherThomas Scott.
May 3 – SirFrancis Bacon is imprisoned in theTower of London after being convicted of receiving bribes, but pardoned by KingJames I later in the year.^[5]
August 26 –Barten Holyday'sallegorical playTechnogamia, originally produced atChrist Church, Oxford in1618, is staged before James I atWoodstock Palace. He dislikes it, but is persuaded to stay to the end for the student actors' sakes.
September 24 – The earliest known copy of theCorante, generally regarded as the first English newspaper, is published.
November 22 – The English poetJohn Donne is installed asDean of St Paul's Cathedral in London.
December 30 – The Spanish writerFrancisco de Borja y Aragón is replaced as Viceroy of Peru byJuan Jiménez de Montalvo, and embarks for home on the following day.

Uncertain date

Jeremias Drexel gives up preaching in order to write a biography ofElisabeth of Lorraine.

New books

Prose

William Alabaster –De bestia Apocalypsis
Robert Burton –The Anatomy of Melancholy
Méric Casaubon –Pietas contra maledicos patrii Nominis et Religionis Hostes
Mao Yuanyi (茅元儀, editor) –Wubei Zhi (武備志, Treatise on Armaments)
John Reynolds –The triumphs of Gods revenge, against the crying, and execrable sinne of murther
Rachel Speght –Mortalities Memorandum
John Taylor –Taylor's Motto
Tobias Venner –A briefe and accurate treatise concerning the taking of the fume of tobacco
John Widdowes –A Description of the World
Lady Mary Wroth –The Countess of Montgomery's Urania

Drama

Francis Beaumont,John Fletcher, &Philip Massinger –Thierry and Theodoret (published)
Thomas Dekker,John Ford, &William Rowley –The Witch of Edmonton
Ben Jonson –The Gypsies Metamorphosed
Tirso de Molina –El vergonzoso en palacio

Poetry

Main article:1621 in poetry

George Wither –Wither's Motto

Births

January 27 –Thomas Willis, English physician and natural philosopher (died1675)
March 18 –Henry Teonge, English diarist and naval chaplain (died1690)
March 31 –Andrew Marvell, English poet (died1678)
April 25 –Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, Anglo-Irish dramatist (died1679)
July 8 –Jean de La Fontaine, French author of fables (died1695)
December 3 –Bohuslav Balbín, Czech Jesuit writer (died1688)
December 14(baptised) –Thomas Long, English writer and cleric (died1707)
unknown date –Jane Cavendish, English poet and playwright (died1669)^[6]
probable –Françoise Bertaut de Motteville, French memoirist (died1689)^[7]
Possible year (1621 or 1622) –Richard Allestree, English scholar and cleric (died1681)

Deaths

January 25 –François Pithou, French author and jurist (born1543)^[8]
March 4 –Ana de Jesús, Spanish nun and writer (born1545)
May 11 –Johann Arndt, German theologian (born1555)
June –William Strachey, English eye-witness historian (born1572)
August 3 –Guillaume du Vair, French writer (born1556)
August 15 –John Barclay, Scottish writer (born1582)
September 25 –Mary Sidney, English playwright and translator (born1561)
October 7 or8 –Antoine de Montchrestien, French adventurer and dramatist (born c. 1575)
December 4 –Andrew Willet, English polemicist and cleric (born1562)
unknown date –Ludwig Hollonius, German dramatist (born c. 1570)^[9]

Notes

^Some sources such as theDictionary of National Biography (1885) and theEncyclopædia Britannica, 11th edition spell the title "St. Albans";^[1]^[2] others, such as the 2007Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and theEncyclopædia Britannica, 9th edition, spell it "St. Alban".^[3]^[4]

References

^Fowler, Thomas (1885)."Bacon, Francis (1561–1626)" . InStephen, Leslie (ed.).Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 2. London:Smith, Elder & Co. p. 346.
^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Adamson, Robert; Mitchell, John Malcolm (1911), "Bacon, Francis", inChisholm, Hugh (ed.),Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 3 (11th ed.), Cambridge University Press, p. 135
^Peltonen, Markku (2007) [2004]. "Bacon, Francis, Viscount St Alban (1561–1626)".Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/990. (Subscription,Wikipedia Library access orUK public library membership required.)
^Adamson, Robert (1878),"Francis Bacon" , in Baynes, T. S. (ed.),Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 3 (9th ed.), New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, p. 200
^Williams, Hywel (2005).Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
^Alexandra G. Bennett (23 August 2017).The Collected Works of Jane Cavendish. Taylor & Francis. p. 9.ISBN 978-1-317-03786-6.
^Françoise de Motteville (1902).Memoirs of Madame de Motteville on Anne of Austria and Her Court. Hardy, Pratt. p. 1.
^Theologische Literaturzeitung (in German).Evangelische Verlagsanstalt. 1971. p. 51.
^Richard Erich Schade (1976).Martin Böhme (1557-1622): The Lutheran Pastor as Writer. Yale University. p. 170.

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