# 1619 in literature

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.
** 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.

## New books
### Prose

* Johannes Valentinus Andreae
** Reipublicae Christianopolitanae descriptio
** Turris Babel
* Jacob Boehme – De Tribus Principiis (On the Three Principles of Divine Being)
* Philipp Clüver
** Sardinia et Corsica Antiqua
** Siciliae Antique libri duo
* Robert Fludd – Utriusque Cosmi...Historia, Tomi Secundi (The History of the Two Worlds, Volume 2)
* Johannes Kepler – Harmonices Mundi (an attack on Fludd's Neoplatonist cosmology)
* John Pitseus – 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

### Drama

* 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
** 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

### Poetry

* Robert Carliell – Britaine's glorie, or An allegoricall dreame... (a defence of the new Church of England)
* George Wither – Fidelia

## Births

* 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)
** 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)

## Deaths

* 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)
* 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)