1615 in literature explained
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1615.
Events
- January 6 – Mercury Vindicated from the Alchemists, a masque written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed at Whitehall Palace in London.[1]
- January 13 – William Browne's masque Circe and Ulysses is staged at the Inner Temple in London.
- January 23 – English poet John Donne becomes an ordained minister in the Church of England.
- March 7 - 11 – King James I of England and Prince Charles visit the University of Cambridge, the first royal visit there since the progress of Queen Elizabeth I in 1564. The university stages entertainments that include performances in Latin of Cecil's Aemilia (March 7), Ruggle's farce Ignoramus (March 8), Tomkis's comedy Albumazar (March 9), and Brooke's Melanthe (March 10). The royals leave Cambridge prior to the première of Fletcher's Sicelides, a Piscatory (March 13). King James enjoys Ignoramus so much that he returns to Cambridge in May to see it again.
- Easter – Persian Safavid hordes led by Shah Abbas the Great kill all the monks at the David Gareja monastery complex in Georgia 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 publishing Bibles without including the Apocrypha.
- Pierre Dupuy is commissioned by Mathieu Molé, first president of the parlement of Paris, to draw up an inventory of the documents known as the French: Trésor des diaries.
- The Chinese dictionary Zihui (字彙/字汇), edited by Mei Yingzuo (梅膺祚|梅膺祚), is published, introducing the Kangxi radicals in Chinese characters.
New books
Prose
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Poetry
See main article: 1615 in poetry.
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Notes and References
- Book: Schuchard, Marsha Keith . Restoring the Temple of Vision: Cabalistic Freemasonry and Stuart Culture . Leiden . Brill Academic Publishers . 2002 . 9789004124899 . 303.
- Book: Michael Mahoney. The Drawings of Salvator Rosa. 1977. Garland Pub.. 978-0-8240-2707-0. xi.
- Book: Gaetana Marrone. Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies: A-J. 2007. Taylor & Francis. 978-1-57958-390-3. 606.
- Book: Arthur Penrhyn STANLEY (Dean of Westminster.). Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey. 1869. 443.
- Book: Aaron M. Kahn. On Wolves and Sheep: Exploring the Expression of Political Thought in Golden Age Spain. 22 September 2011. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 978-1-4438-3417-9. 23.