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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
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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