title: 1619 in literature
text: # 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)
  