This article contains information about the literary events and publications of1615.

• January 6 –Mercury Vindicated from the Alchemists, amasque written byBen Jonson and designed byInigo Jones, is performed atWhitehall Palace in London.^[1]
• January 13 –William Browne's masqueCirce and Ulysses is staged at theInner Temple in London.
• January 23 – English poetJohn Donne becomes an ordainedminister in theChurch of England.
• March 7–11 – KingJames I of England andPrince Charles visit theUniversity of Cambridge, the first royal visit there since the progress of QueenElizabeth I in 1564. The university stages entertainments that include performances inLatin of Cecil'sAemilia (March 7), Ruggle'sfarceIgnoramus (March 8),Tomkis's comedyAlbumazar (March 9), and Brooke'sMelanthe (March 10). The royals leave Cambridge prior to the première of Fletcher'sSicelides, a Piscatory (March 13). King James enjoysIgnoramus so much that he returns to Cambridge in May to see it again.
• Easter – PersianSafavid hordes led by ShahAbbas the Great kill all the monks at theDavid Gareja monastery complex inGeorgia and set fire to its collection of manuscripts and works of art.
• In England,George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury, imposes a year's imprisonment for publishingBibles without including theApocrypha.
• Pierre Dupuy is commissioned byMathieu Molé, first president of theparlement of Paris, to draw up an inventory of the documents known as theTrésor des diaries.
• TheChinese dictionaryZihui (字彙/字汇), edited by Mei Yingzuo (梅膺祚|梅膺祚), is published, introducing theKangxi radicals inChinese characters.

• Johannes Valentinus Andreae –Confessio oder Bekenntnis der Societät und Bruderschaft Rosenkreuz
• William Camden –Annales Rerum Gestarum Angliae et Hiberniae Regnate Elizabetha, Part 1
• Miguel de Cervantes –Don Quixote, Part 2
• Gervase Markham –The English Huswife, Containing the Inward and Outward Virtues Which Ought to Be in a Complete Woman
• Antoine de Montchrestien –Traité de l'économie politique
• Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala –El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno (approximate date of completion of manuscript)
• Matteo Ricci (died 1610) andNicolas Trigault –De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas
• Joseph Swetnam –The Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women

• "R. A., Gent." (Robert Anton,Robert Aylett orRobert Armin?) –The Valiant Welshman, or the true Chronicle History of the Life and Valiant Deedes of Caradoc the Great, King of Cambria (published)
• Samuel Brooke –Melanthe
• William Browne –Circe and Ulysses
• Edward Cecil –Aemilia
• Tirso de Molina –Don Gil de las calzas verdes
• Lope de Vega
  • La malcasada [es]
  • Santiago el verde
• Phineas Fletcher –Sicelides
• Thomas Heywood –The Four Prentices of London (published)
• Ben Jonson –Mercury Vindicated from the Alchemists
• Anthony Munday –Metropolis Coronata
• George Ruggle –Ignoramus
• Thomas Tomkis –Albumazar

• Lope de Vega –La Arcadia

• March 23 –Ferrante Pallavicino, Italian satirist (died1644)
• June/July –Salvator Rosa, Italian painter and poet (died1673)^[2]
• November 12 –Richard Baxter, English non-conformist leader and religious writer (died1691)
• November 22 –Gabriel Cossart, French historian (died1674)
• Unknown dates
  • Laurence Clarkson, English theologian and pamphleteer (died1667)
  • Adam Gdacjusz, Polish writer and preacher (died1688)
  • Tanneguy Le Fèvre, French classicist (died1672)
• Probable year of birth – SirJohn Denham, Irish poet (died1669)

• February 4 –Giambattista della Porta, Italian polymath (born c. 1535)^[3]
• July 10 –Henry Neville, English diplomat, proposed author of someShakespeare plays (born1562)
• August –Arthur Agarde, English antiquary (born1540)^[4]
• September 1 –Étienne Pasquier, French historian (born1529)
• November –Robert Armin, English actor and dramatist (born c. 1563)
• Unknown date –Gabriel Lobo Lasso de la Vega, Castilian poet, dramatist and historian (born1555)^[5]

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