1614 in literature
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The year 1614 in literature involved some significant events.
Events
- Sir Francis BaconFrancis BaconFrancis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Albans, KC was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author and pioneer of the scientific method. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England...
's dual role as MP and attorney-general is objected to by Parliament. - Izaak WaltonIzaak WaltonIzaak Walton was an English writer. Best known as the author of The Compleat Angler, he also wrote a number of short biographies which have been collected under the title of Walton's Lives.-Biography:...
owns an ironmonger's shop in Fleet StreetFleet StreetFleet Street is a street in central London, United Kingdom, named after the River Fleet, a stream that now flows underground. It was the home of the British press until the 1980s...
, London. - Lope de VegaLope de VegaFélix Arturo Lope de Vega y Carpio was a Spanish playwright and poet. He was one of the key figures in the Spanish Golden Century Baroque literature...
becomes a priest. - Luís de SousaLuís de SousaFrei Luís de Sousa , Portuguese monk and prose-writer, was born at Santarém, a member of the noble family of Sousa Coutinho.-Capture and release:...
becomes a Dominican friar. - The Duchess of MalfiThe Duchess of MalfiThe Duchess of Malfi is a macabre, tragic play written by the English dramatist John Webster in 1612–13. It was first performed privately at the Blackfriars Theatre, then before a more general audience at The Globe, in 1613-14...
is first performed at the Globe TheatreGlobe TheatreThe Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, and was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613...
, London. - Pietro Della VallePietro Della VallePietro della Valle was an Italian who traveled throughout Asia during the Renaissance period. His travels took him to the Holy Land, the Middle East, Northern Africa, and as Far as India.-Biography:...
begins his travels. - Madeleine de SouvréMadeleine de Souvré, marquise de SabléMadeleine de Souvré, marquise de Sablé , French writer, was the daughter of Gilles de Souvré, marquis de Courtenvaux, tutor of Louis XIII, and marshal of France....
marries the marquis de Sablé. - London sees a controversy between actors and watermen. In the first six months of the year, no theatres operate on the south bank of the ThamesRiver ThamesThe River Thames flows through southern England. It is the longest river entirely in England and the second longest in the United Kingdom. While it is best known because its lower reaches flow through central London, the river flows alongside several other towns and cities, including Oxford,...
, causing a severe decline in demand for the watermen's taxi service. The watermen respond by proposing to limit the locations of the theatres around London, much to the actors' displeasure. The rebuilt Globe TheatreGlobe TheatreThe Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, and was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613...
opens by June, and Philip HenslowePhilip HenslowePhilip Henslowe was an Elizabethan theatrical entrepreneur and impresario. Henslowe's modern reputation rests on the survival of his diary, a primary source for information about the theatrical world of Renaissance London...
's new Hope TheatreHope TheatreThe Hope Theatre was one of the theatres built in and around London for the presentation of plays in English Renaissance theatre, comparable to the Globe, the Curtain, the Swan, and other famous theatres of the era....
opens in October, negating the watermen's complaint. John Taylor the Water PoetJohn Taylor (poet)John Taylor was an English poet who dubbed himself "The Water Poet".-Biography:He was born in Gloucester, 24 August 1578....
describes the controversy in his The True Cause of the Watermen's Suit Concerning Players. - On January 25, the Lady Elizabeth's MenLady Elizabeth's MenThe Lady Elizabeth's Men, or Princess Elizabeth's Men, was a company of actors in Jacobean London, formed under the patronage of King James I's daughter Princess Elizabeth. From 1618 on, the company was called The Queen of Bohemia's Men, after Elizabeth and her husband the Elector Palatine had...
perform the formerly controversial Eastward HoEastward HoeEastward Hoe or Eastward Ho, is an early Jacobean era stage play, a satire and city comedy written by George Chapman, Ben Jonson, and John Marston, printed in 1605. The play was written in response to Westward Ho, an earlier satire by Thomas Dekker and John Webster...
at Court; the same company acts 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...
's Bartholomew FairBartholomew FairBartholomew Fayre: A Comedy is a comedy in five acts by Ben Jonson, the last written of his four great comedies. It was first staged on October 31, 1614 at the Hope Theatre by the Lady Elizabeth's Men...
at Court on November 1, a day after its premier.
New books
- Johannes AlthusiusJohannes AlthusiusJohannes Althusius was a German jurist and Calvinist political philosopher.He is best known for his 1603 work, "Politica Methodice Digesta, Atque Exemplis Sacris et Profanis Illustrata"; revised editions were published in 1610 and 1614...
- Politica Methodice Digesta - Johannes Valentinus AndreaeJohannes Valentinus AndreaeJohannes Valentinus Andreae , a.k.a. Johannes Valentinus Andreä or Johann Valentin Andreae, was a German theologian, who claimed to be the author of the Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz anno 1459 one of the three founding works of...
- Fama fraternitatis Roseae Crucis oder Die Bruderschaft des Ordens der Rosenkreuzer - Alonso Jerónimo de Salas BarbadilloAlonso Jerónimo de Salas BarbadilloAlonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo was a Spanish novelist and playwright, born in Madrid, and educated in Alcalá de Henares and Valladolid....
- El Cavallero puntual - New edition of the King James Version of the BibleKing James Version of the BibleThe Authorized Version, commonly known as the King James Version, King James Bible or KJV, is an English translation of the Christian Bible by the Church of England begun in 1604 and completed in 1611...
in a "user-friendly" Roman typeface - Michael MaierMichael MaierMichael Maier was a German physician and counsellor to Rudolf II Habsburg, a learned alchemist, epigramist and amateur composer.- Biography :...
- Arcana arcanissima
New drama
- Anonymous - The Masque of Flowers
- 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...
- Hymen's Triumph - 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...
- Bartholomew Fair - Johannes MesseniusJohannes MesseniusJohannes Messenius was a Swedish historian, dramatist and university professor. He was born in the village of Freberga, in Stenby parish in Östergötland, and died in Oulu, in modern-day Finland.-Childhood:...
- Blanckamäreta - Anthony MundayAnthony MundayAnthony Munday was an English dramatist and miscellaneous writer. The chief interest in Munday for the modern reader lies in his collaboration with Shakespeare and others on the play Sir Thomas More and his writings on Robin Hood.-Biography:He was once thought to have been born in 1553, because...
- Himatia-Poleos - Robert Tailor - The Hog Hath Lost His Pearl published
Poetry
- William Browne - The Shepherd's Pipe
- Miguel de CervantesMiguel de CervantesMiguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. His magnum opus, Don Quixote, considered the first modern novel, is a classic of Western literature, and is regarded amongst the best works of fiction ever written...
- Viaje del Parnaso
Births
- October 12 - Henry MoreHenry MoreHenry More FRS was an English philosopher of the Cambridge Platonist school.-Biography:Henry was born at Grantham and was schooled at The King's School, Grantham and at Eton College...
, philosopher (died 1687) - date unknown - Juan de Matos FragosoJuan de Matos FragosoJuan de Matos Fragoso , a Spanish dramatist of Portuguese descent, was born about 1608 at Alvito . After taking his degree in law at the University of Evora, he proceeded to Madrid, where he made acquaintance with Juan Pérez de Montalbán, and thus obtained an introduction to the stage...
, dramatist (died 1689) - date unknown - Hallgrímur PéturssonHallgrímur PéturssonHallgrímur Pétursson was one of Iceland's most famous poets and a minister at Hvalneskirkja and Saurbær in Hvalfjörður. The Hallgrímskirkja in Reykjavík and the Hallgrímskirkja in Saurbær are named after him. He was one of the most influential pastors during the Age of Orthodoxy...
, poet (died 1674) - probable - John LilburneJohn LilburneJohn Lilburne , also known as Freeborn John, was an English political Leveller before, during and after English Civil Wars 1642-1650. He coined the term "freeborn rights", defining them as rights with which every human being is born, as opposed to rights bestowed by government or human law...
, political author and agitator (died 1657)
Deaths
- July 1 - Isaac CasaubonIsaac CasaubonIsaac Casaubon was a classical scholar and philologist, first in France and then later in England, regarded by many of his time as the most learned in Europe.-Early life:...
, classical scholar (born 1559) - July 15 - Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de BrantômePierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de BrantômePierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme was a French historian, soldier and biographer.-Life:Brantôme was born in Périgord, Aquitaine, the third son of the baron de Bourdeille...
, historian and biographer (born c1540) - date unknown - William BatheWilliam BatheWilliam Bathe was a Jesuit priest, born in Dublin, Ireland.Bathe was a native of Drumcondra Castle, County Dublin, and a brother of John Bathe, an Irish representative at the Royal Court in Madrid in the early 1600's.....
, teacher of languages (born 1564) - date unknown - Luisa Carvajal y MendozaLuisa Carvajal y MendozaLuisa Carvajal y Mendoza was a member of the Spanish nobility, a family connection of the Duke of Lerma and religious poet and writer....
, poet and author (born 1556) - date unknown - Joshua FalkJoshua Falk----Joshua ben Alexander HaCohen Falk was a Polish Halakhist and Talmudist, best known as the author of the Beit Yisrael commentary on the Arba'ah Turim as well as Sefer Me'irat Enayim on Shulkhan Arukh...
, Hebraic scholar (born 1555) - date unknown - Simon GrahameSimon GrahameSimon Grahame , born in Edinburgh, Scotland, led a dissolute life as a traveller, soldier, and courtier on the Continent of Europe...
, miscellaneous author (born 1570) - date unknown - John SpenserJohn SpenserJohn Spenser was an English academic, president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.-Life:He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, London, and Oxford....
, editor and translator (born 1559) - date unknown - Cristóbal de ViruésCristóbal de ViruésCristóbal de Virués was a Spanish dramatist and poet.He was born at Valencia about the middle of the 16th century, joined the army, fought at Lepanto, and retired to his native place with the rank of captain shortly before 1586....
, dramatist and poet (born 1550)