17th century in literature

See also: 16th century in literature, other events of the 17th century, 1700 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• 1660-1669 – Samuel Pepys writes his diary.
• 1667-1668 – Marianna Alcoforado writes her Letters of a Portuguese Nun.

New Books/Plays

1600

• Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
• England's Helicon (anthology) – including work by Edmund Spenser, Michael Drayton, Thomas Lodge, Philip Sidney and others
• Old Fortunatus – Thomas Dekker

1601

• Twelfth Night, or What You Will by William Shakespeare
• Cynthia's Revells – Ben Jonson

1602

• Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare
• Antonio and Mellida (play) – John Marston
• Mirum in Modum (poetry) – John Davies of Hereford
• Satiromastix (play) – Thomas Dekker and John Marston
• A Survey of Cornwall – Richard Carew

1603

• The True Law of Free Monarchies by King James I
• Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
• Othello by William Shakespeare

1604

• All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare
• The Honest Whore (play) – Thomas Dekker
• The Malcontent (play) – John Marston

1605

• Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare
• The Dutch Courtesan (play) – John Marston
• The Tragedy of Philotas (play) – Samuel Daniel
• The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare
• Don Quixote (El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha), Part I – Miguel de Cervantes
• Epistle concerning the Excellencies of the English Tongue – Richard Carew

1606

• Macbeth by William Shakespeare
• Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare

1607

• A Woman Killed with Kindness (play) – Thomas Heywood
• Bussy D'Ambois (play) – George Chapman
• Michaelmas Terme (play) – Thomas Middleton
• The Knight of the Burning Pestle (play) – Francis Beaumont
• The Famous History of Sir Thomas Wyat (play) – Thomas Dekker and John Webster
• The Legend of Great Cromwell – Michael Drayton
• Pericles, Prince of Tyre by William Shakespeare
• The Revenger's Tragedy by Cyril Tourneur or Thomas Middleton

1608

• Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
• A Nest of Ninnies – Robert Armin
• Humour out of Breathe (play) – John Day
• The Belman of London (play) – Thomas Dekker
• The Merry Devil of Edmonton (play) – anonymous; has been attributed to William Shakespeare, Michael Drayton and others.

1609

• The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
• Fourre Birds of Noahs Arke – Thomas Dekker
• The Gul's Hornebooke – Thomas Dekker

1610

• Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
• The Faithful Shepherdess (play) – John Fletcher

A Woman's a Weathercock (1612), Amends for Ladies (1618), and (with Massinger) The Fatal Dowry (1632).

1611

• The Authorized Version (King James version) of the Bible
• The Tempest by William Shakespeare
• Catiline his Conspiracy (play) – Ben Jonson
• The Roaring Girle (play) – Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton

1612

• A Woman is a Weather-Cocke – Nathaniel Field

1613

• Henry VIII by William Shakespeare
• Tears on the Death of Moeliades – William Drummond of Hawthornden
• The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois – George Chapman
• Purchas, his Pilgrimage; or, Relations of the World and the Religions observed in all Ages – Samuel Purchas

1614

• Bartholomew Fair (play) – Ben Jonson

1615

• Don Quixote, Part II – Miguel de Cervantes

1616

• Ben Jonson's Works
• The Whole Works of Homer – George Chapman
• The Bloody Brother (?1616–30?) – John Fletcher, Ben Jonson, Philip Massinger, George Chapman ([httlockep://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/fletcher/drinkingsong.htm The drinking song])

1617

• A Faire Quarrell (play) – Thomas Middleton and William Rowley

1618

• History of Tythes – John Selden
• Amends for Ladies (play) – Nathaniel Field

1619

• A King and No King (play) – Beaumont and Fletcher
• The Maid's Tragedy (play) – Beaumont and Fletcher
• The Shoemaker's Holiday – Thomas Deloney
• The Custome of the Countrey – John Fletcher and Philip Massinger

1620

• Philaster – Beaumont and Fletcher

1621

• The Anatomy of Melancholy – Robert Burton
• Women Beware Women – Thomas Middleton
• El vergonzoso en palacio – Tirso de Molina

1622

• The Heir (play) – Thomas May
• The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh – Francis Bacon
• The French Disease – Richard Brome
• The Beggar's Bush – John Fletcher
• El tejedor de Segovia – Alercon
• The Changeling – Thomas Middleton and William Rowley text

1623

• A Fault in Friendship – Richard Brome
• Flowers of Sion – William Drummond of Hawthornden
• The Duchess of Malfi – John Webster
• First Folio – William Shakespeare

1624

• The City-Night-Cap (comedy) – Robert Davenport
• Nero Caesar, or Monarchie Depraved – Edmund Bolton
• The Sun's Darling – John Ford

1625

• A Game at Chess  – Thomas Middleton
• Complete Essays  – Francis Bacon
• Les Bergeries  – Racan

1627

• The Bataile of Agincourt  – Michael Drayton
• First Steps up Parnassus – Michael Drayton

1628

• Microcosmographie – John Earle

1629

• The Roman Actor (play) – Philip Massinger
• The Saint's Cordial – Richard Sibbes
• The Tragedy of Albovine (play) – William D'Avenant

1630

• The Conceited Pedlar – Thomas Randolph

1631

• The Fair Maid of the West (play) – Thomas Heywood

1632

• L'Allegro – John Milton
• The Fatal Dowry (play) – Nathaniel Field and Philip Massinger
• The City Madam – Philip Massinger
• The Muses’ Looking-Glass by Thomas Randolph

1633

• A New Way to Pay Old Debts (play) – Philip Massinger
• Love's Sacrifice (play) – John Ford
• The Gamester (play) – James Shirley
• The Temple (poetry) – George Herbert

1634

• Tottenham Court (play) – Thomas Nabbes

1636

• The Royal Slave (play) – William Cartwright

1637

• The Pleasant Historie of Albino and Bellama – Nathaniel Whiting

1638

• Alcione (play) – Pierre du Ryer

1639

• Argalus and Parthenia (play) – Henry Glapthorne
• The City Match – Jasper Mayne

1640

• Dodona's Grove – James Howell
• The Bay Psalm Book, the first book printed in North America
• Joseph's partly-coloured Coat – Thomas Fuller

1641

• Episcopacy by Divine Right – Joseph Hall
• The Cardinall (play) – James Shirley (first extant edition, 1652)
• A Joviall Crew (play) – Richard Brome (first extant edition, 1652)
• Fragmenta Regalia, or Observations on the late Queen Elizabeth, her Times and Favourites – Sir Robert Naunton (posthumous)

1642

• September: Playhouses closed in England by government order.
• Religio Medici Sir Thomas Browne
• Saul (play) by Pierre du Ryer

1644

• Areopagitica by John Milton

1646

• Andronicus or the Unfortunate Politician – Thomas Fuller
• Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Vulgar Errors – Sir Thomas Browne

1647

• Philosophical Poems – Henry More

1648

• The Amorous War – Jasper Mayne
• Hesperides by Robert Herrick (poet)

1649

• Eikon Basilike – John Gauden

1650

• Silex scintillans – Henry Vaughan

1651

• Leviathan – Thomas Hobbes
• Reliquiae Wottonianiae – Sir Henry Wotton (posthumous)
• Jeune Alcidiane – Marin le Roy de Gomberville

1652

• Brief Character of the Low Countries – Owen Feltham
• Theophilia or Love's Sacrifice (poetry) – Edward Benlowes
• The Cardinall (play) – James Shirley

1653

• A History of New England – Edward Johnson
• The Compleat Angler – Izaak Walton
• Poems and Fancies – Margaret Cavendish

1654

• Lucifer (play) – Joost van den Vondel
• Parlhenissa, a novel – Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery

1655

• The Worlds Olio – Margaret Cavendish

1656

Nature's Pictures – Margaret Cavendish

1657

1658

• Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial  – Sir Thomas Browne
• The Garden of Cyrus -Sir Thomas Browne

1659

• Lucasta – Richard Lovelace (posthumous)
• Pharonnida – William Chamberlayne

1661

• Tyrannus, or The Mode – John Evelyn

1662

• A new edition of the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England (this edition remains the officially authorised book to the present day).

1664

• Love's Kingdom, with a Discourse of the English Stage – Richard Flecknoe

1665

• A Moral Essay preferring Solitude to Public Employment – Sir George Mackenzie
• Memoires of François Bassompierre (posthumous)

1666

• Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners by John Bunyan

1667

• Paradise Lost by John Milton
• Annus Mirabilis, the Year of Wonders 1666 – John Dryden
• Secret Love (play) – John Dryden

1668

• Le Tartuffe – Molière
• Cyprianus Anglicanus – Peter Heylin
• Essay of Dramatick Poesie – John Dryden
• Observations upon Experimental Philosophy – Margaret Cavendish

1670

• The Forced Marriage – Aphra Behn
• The Conquest of Granada – John Dryden

1671

• Samson Agonistes – John Milton
• The Rehearsal (play) – George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham performed

1672

• Marriage a la Mode by John Dryden
• The Rehearsal (play) by George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham published

1674

• Navigation and Commerce – John Evelyn
• The Tragedy of Nero, Emperour of Rome (play) – Nathaniel Lee

1675

• The Country Wife by William Wycherley
• Gerania; a New Discovery of a Little Sort of People, anciently discoursed of, called Pygmies by Joshua Barnes

1676

• The Man of Mode (play) – George Etherege
• English-Adventures by a Person of Honor – Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery

1677

• Phèdre – Jean Racine
• Treatise of the Art of War – Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery

1678

• All for Love – John Dryden
• The True Intellectual System of the Universe – Ralph Cudworth
• The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
• Threnodia Carolina – Sir Thomas Herbert

1679

• Anima Mundi – Charles Blount

1680

• The Life and Death of Mr Badman – John Bunyan

1681

• Miscellaneous Poems by Andrew Marvell (posthumous)
• Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden

1687

• The Hind and the Panther – John Dryden
• The Hind and the Panther Transversed to the Story of the Country and the City Mouse – Matthew Prior
• Bellamira, or The Mistress (play) – Sir Charles Sedley

1689

• The Massacre of Paris (play) – Nathaniel Lee
• Table Talk – John Selden (posthumous)

1690

• Amphitryon, or the Two Socias – John Dryden
• An Essay Concerning Human Understanding – John Locke
• Memoires of the Navy by Samuel Pepys

1693

• The Impartial Critick – John Dennis

1694

• The Fatal Marriage (play) – Thomas Southerne

1697

• A New Voyage Round the World – William Dampier

1698

• The Campaigners (play) – Thomas D'Urfey

1699

• Dialogues of the Dead – William King and Charles Boyle

Births

• 1600 – Marin le Roy de Gomberville
• 1602 – Jean-Jacques Boissard
• 1606 – Pierre du Ryer
• 1611 – William Cartwright; Thomas Urquhart
• 1613 – John Cleveland
• 1615 – Tanneguy Lefebvre
• 1617 – Ralph Cudworth
• 1620 – Lucy Hutchinson
• 1621 – Andrew Marvell
• 1626 – John Aubrey
• 1627 – John Flavel
• 1628 – John Bunyan
• 1630 – Isaac Barrow
• 1631 – John Dryden
• 1633 – Samuel Pepys
• 1639 – Thomas Ellwood
• 1640 – Aphra Behn
• 1643 – Gilbert Burnet
• 1644 – Matsuo Basho
• 1648 – Robert Barclay
• 1651 – William Dampier
• 1652 – Thomas Otway
• 1657 – Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
• 1659 – John Asgill
• 1681 – Robert Keith
• 1685 – George Berkeley
• 1689 – Samuel Richardson

Deaths

• 1600 – Richard Hooker (theologian)
• 1605 – John Stow
• 1607 – Sir Edward Dyer
• 1612 – Robert Armin
• 1616 – William Shakespeare; Francis Beaumont; Richard Hakluyt
• 1621 – Guillaume du Vair
• 1622 – Molière
• 1623 – William Camden
• 1624 – Stephen Gosson
• 1625 – John Fletcher; Thomas Lodge
• 1626 – Lancelot Andrewes; Samuel Purchas
• 1631 – Michael Drayton; Guillén de Castro y Bellvis
• 1633 – Abraham Fraunce
• 1634 – George Chapman
• 1635 – Lope de Vega; Thomas Randolph; Richard Corbet; John Hall (son-in-law of Shakespeare)
• 1638 – Robert Aytoun
• 1640 – Philip Massinger
• 1641 – Augustine Baker
• 1643 – William Cartwright
• 1644 – Francis Quarles
• 1645 – William Lithgow
• 1647 – Francis Meres
• 1648 – George Abbot; Vincent Voiture
• 1658 – Pierre du Ryer
• 1660 – Thomas Urquhart
• 1662 – François le Métel de Boisrobert
• 1667 – Georges de Scudéry
• 1672 – Anne Bradstreet; Tanneguy Lefebvre
• 1673 – Molière
• 1674 – Marin le Roy de Gomberville
• 1678 – Andrew Marvell
• 1685 – Thomas Otway
• 1688 – John Bunyan; Ralph Cudworth
• 1689 – Aphra Behn
• 1691 – Richard Baxter; John Flavel

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