1619 in literature explained

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1619.

Events

March – After the death of Richard Burbage, his place as leading actor of the King's Men in London is filled by Joseph Taylor.
April – Ben Jonson visits the Scottish poet William Drummond of Hawthornden.
c. October – After the death of Samuel Daniel in Somerset, his place as Poet Laureate of the Kingdom of England is filled by Ben Jonson.
unknown dates
- René Descartes has a dream that helps him develop his ideas on analytical geometry.^[1]
- William Jaggard and Thomas Pavier publish in London the so-called False Folio, a collection of Shakespearean and pseudo-Shakespearean plays mostly with false imprints and dates.^[2]

Johannes Valentinus Andreae
- Latin: Reipublicae Christianopolitanae descriptio^[3]
- Turris Babel
Jacob Boehme – Latin: De Tribus Principiis (On the Three Principles of Divine Being)
- - Philipp Clüver Sardinia et Corsica Antiqua
- Siciliae Antique libri duo
Robert Fludd – Latin: Utriusque Cosmi...Historia, Tomi Secundi (The History of the Two Worlds, Volume 2)
Johannes Kepler – Latin: Harmonices Mundi (an attack on Fludd's Neoplatonist cosmology)
John Pitseus – Latin: De Illustribus Angliae scriptoribus
Samuel Purchas – Purchas his Pilgrim or Microcosmus, or the Historie of Man. Relating the Wonders of his Generation, Vanities in his Degeneration, Necessities of his Regenerations
Paolo Sarpi – History of the Council of Trent
John Taylor – A Kicksey Winsey, or, A Lerry Come-Twang
William Whately – A Bride-Bvsh; or a Direction for Married Persons. Plainely describing the Dvties common to both, and peculiar to each of them

Anonymous – Two Wise Men and All the Rest Fools (published)
Beaumont and Fletcher (published)
- A King and No King
- The Maid's Tragedy
Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero
- De klucht van de koe
- Dutch; Flemish: Stommen ridder
Lope de Vega – Fuente Ovejuna (published)
John Fletcher – The Humorous Lieutenant
John Fletcher and Philip Massinger – Sir John van Olden Barnavelt
Philip Massinger and Nathan Field – The Fatal Dowry (approximate date)
Thomas Middleton – The Masque of Heroes

See main article: article and 1619 in poetry.

March 6 – Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier and poet (died 1655)
June 24 – Rijcklof van Goens, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies 1678–81 and travel writer (died 1682)
November 7 – Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French biographer (died 1692)
December 28 – Antoine Furetière, French satirist (died 1688)
unknown dates
- Morgan Llwyd, Welsh preacher, poet and writer (died 1659)^[4]
- Shalom Shabazi, Jewish Yemeni poet (died 1720)
probable
- William Chamberlayne, English poet, playwright, physician and Royalist soldier (died 1703)
- Alice Curwen, English autobiographer and Quaker (died 1679)
- Henry (Heinrich) Oldenburg, German-born editor, correspondent and Royal Society secretary (died 1677)

February 9 – Lucilio Vanini, Italian philosopher (born 1585)
February 12 - Pierre de Larivey, Italian-born French dramatist (born 1549)
March 13 – Richard Burbage, English actor and theatre proprietor (born c. 1567)
July 12 – Olivier de Serres, French writer on agriculture and horticulture (born 1539)
October 14 – Samuel Daniel, English Poet Laureate and historian (born 1562)
October 18 – Petrus Gudelinus, Dutch jurist (born 1550)^[5]
October 19 – Fujiwara Seika, Japanese philosopher (born 1561)

probable

- Ginés Pérez de Hita, Spanish novelist and poet (born c. 1544)
- Pierre de La Primaudaye, French Protestant writer (born 1546)^[6]

Web site: René Descartes. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy .
Book: Michigan Academician. 1970. Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters. 95.
https://archive.org/details/reipublicaechris00andr in Latin.
Web site: Morgan Llwyd Welsh author . Encyclopedia Britannica . 25 March 2019 . en.
Book: G. 1862. 535. nl.
Book: Stuart Gillespie. Shakespeare's Books: A Dictionary of Shakespeare Sources. 1 August 2001. A&C Black. 978-1-84714-338-9. 276.