17th Century in Literature - New Books and Plays

New Books and 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
• The Spanish Moor's Tragedy - Thomas Dekker, John Marston, and William Haughton

1601

• Twelfth Night, or What You Will by William Shakespeare
• Cynthia's Revels - Ben Jonson
• Disputationes Metaphysicae by Francisco Suárez first published
• Satiromastix - Thomas Dekker

1602

• Rymes by Lope de Vega
• 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
• The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe (published)

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
• The King James Version of the Holy Bible

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 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
• Jersulam Conquered (epic poem) by Lope de Vega
• Fourre Birds of Noahs Arke - Thomas Dekker

1610

• Sidereus Nuncius by Galileo Galilei
• Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
• The Faithful Shepherdess (play) - John Fletcher

1611

• Fuente Ovejuna (play) - Lope de Vega
• 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

• Four Soluloquies - Lope de Vega
• El comendador de Ocaña (Ocaña's mayor) - Lope de Vega
• A Woman is a Weather-Cocke - Nathan Field

1613

• Soledades - Luis de Góngora
• La dama boba (the fool lady) - Lope de Vega
• The Dog in the Manger (play) - Lope de Vega
• 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
• La Lira by Giambattista Marino
• Fama fraternitatis Roseae Crucis oder Die Bruderschaft des Ordens der Rosenkreuzer - Johannes Valentinus Andreae

1615

• Don Quixote, Part II - Miguel de Cervantes
• El caballero de Olmedo (The knight from Olmedo) (play) - Lope de Vega
• Confessio oder Bekenntnis der Societät und Bruderschaft Rosenkreuz - Johannes Valentinus Andreae

1616

• Ben Jonson's Works
• The Whole Works of Homer - George Chapman
• Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz Anno 1459 - Johannes Valentinus Andreae
• Rollo, Duke of Normandy (also known as The Bloody Brother) (?1616-30?) - John Fletcher, Ben Jonson, Philip Massinger, George Chapman (The drinking song)

1617

• Warenar (play) by Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft
• A Faire Quarrell (play) - Thomas Middleton and William Rowley

1618

• History of Tythes - John Selden
• Amends for Ladies (play) - Nathan 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
• Reipublicae Christianopolitanae descriptio - Johannes Valentinus Andreae

1620

• Philaster - Beaumont and Fletcher

1621

• The Anatomy of Melancholy - Robert Burton
• Women Beware Women - Thomas Middleton
• El vergonzoso en palacio - Tirso de Molina
• The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania - Lady Mary Wroth

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 - Juan Ruiz de Alarcón
• The Changeling - Thomas Middleton and William Rowley text

1623

• L'Adone by Giambattista Marino
• Love, honour and power (play) - Pedro Calderón de la Barca
• The Duchess of Malfi - John Webster
• First Folio - William Shakespeare

1624

• Circe (poem) bu Lope de Vega
• Nero Caesar, or Monarchie Depraved - Edmund Bolton
• The Sun's Darling - John Ford

1625

• De jure belli ac pacis by Hugo Grotius
• Complete Essays - Francis Bacon
• Les Bergeries - Racan

1626

• El Buscón - Francisco de Quevedo

1627

• England's schim (play) - Pedro Calderón de la Barca
• The Bataile of Agincourt - Michael Drayton
• First Steps up Parnassus - Michael Drayton

1628

• Microcosmographie - John Earle

1629

• The Roman Actor (play) - Philip Massinger
• La Dama Duende (play) - Pedro Calderón de la Barca
• The Tragedy of Albovine (play) - William D'Avenant

1630

• The Conceited Pedlar - Thomas Randolph

1631

• The punishment without vengeance (play) - Lope de Vega

1632

• L'Allegro - John Milton
• La Dorotea - Lope de Vega
• The Fatal Dowry (play) - Nathan Field and Philip Massinger
• Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems by Galileo Galilei
• 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

• Life is a dream (play) - Pedro Calderón de la Barca
• Le Cid (play) - Pierre Corneille

1637

• La Vega del Parnaso (Parnasos' river bank) - Lope de Vega
• Discourse on the Method - René Descartes

1638

• Two New Sciences by Galileo Galilei
• Alcione (play) - Pierre du Ryer

1639

• Argalus and Parthenia (play) - Henry Glapthorne
• The City Match - Jasper Mayne

1640

• Horace (play) - Pierre Corneille
• The Bay Psalm Book, the first book printed in North America
• Joseph's partly-coloured Coat - Thomas Fuller

1641

• Meditations on First Philosophy - René Descartes
• 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)

1642

• September: Playhouses closed in England by government order.
• Religio Medici Sir Thomas Browne
• Saul (play) by Pierre du Ryer

1644

• Principles of Philosophy - René Descartes
• 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

• El alcalde de Zalamea - Pedro Calderón de la Barca
• 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
• The Princess Cloria - Percy Herbert, 2nd Baron Powis

1654

• Lucifer (play) - Joost van den Vondel
• Parlhenissa, a novel - Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery

1655

• L'Étourdi ou les Contretemps first play by Molière

1656

• El gran teatro del mundo (World's great theatre) (play) - Pedro Calderón de la Barca
• Nature's Pictures - Margaret Cavendish
• Oceana by James Harrington

1657

• Guárdate del agua mansa (Keep out from silent waters) - Pedro Calderón de la Barca
• Katharina von Georgien (play) by Andreas Gryphius

1658

• Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial - Sir Thomas Browne
• The Garden of Cyrus -Sir Thomas Browne

1659

• Lucasta - Richard Lovelace (posthumous)
• Pharonnida - William Chamberlayne

1661

• Elementa jurisprudentiae universalis libri duo by Samuel von Pufendorf

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

• La Thébaïde (play) - Jean Racine

1665

• Alexandre le Grand (Alexander the Great) (play) - Jean Racine
• Memoires of François Bassompierre (posthumous)

1666

• Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners by John Bunyan

1667

• Paradise Lost by John Milton
• Andromaque by Jean Racine
• Annus Mirabilis, the Year of Wonders 1666 - John Dryden
• Secret Love (play) - John Dryden

1668

• Le Tartuffe - Molière
• The Miser - Molière
• Simplicius Simplicissimus - Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
• Cyprianus Anglicanus - Peter Heylin
• Essay of Dramatick Poesie - John Dryden
• Observations upon Experimental Philosophy - Margaret Cavendish

1670

• Pensées by Blaise Pascal
• The Conquest of Granada - John Dryden

1671

• Madame de Sévigné writes her first letter
• Samson Agonistes - John Milton
• The Rehearsal (play) - George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham performed
• Hayy ibn Yaqdhan by Ibn Tufail - translated into Latin by Edward Pococke the Younger as Philosophus Autodidactus

1672

• Bajacet (play) by Jean Racine
• Marriage à la mode by John Dryden
• The Rehearsal (play) by George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham published
• Hayy ibn Yaqdhan by Ibn Tufail - translated into Dutch by Johannes Bouwmeester

1674

• Iphigénie (play) by Jean Racine
• 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

1682

• The Life of an Amorous Man (好色一代男, Kōshoku Ichidai Otoko) by Ihara Saikaku

1685

• Five Women Who Loved Love (好色五人女, Kōshoku Gonin Onna) by Ihara Saikaku

1686

• Hayy ibn Yaqdhan by Ibn Tufail - translated into English by George Ashwell
• The Life of an Amorous Woman (好色一代女, Kōshoku Ichidai Onna) by Ihara Saikaku

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
• The Great Mirror of Male Love (The Encyclopedia of Male Love) (男色大鑑, Nanshoku Okagami) by Ihara Saikaku

1688

• The Eternal Storehouse of Japan (日本永代蔵, Nippon Eitaigura) by Ihara Saikaku

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

1691

• Athalie (play) - Jean Racine

1692

• Reckonings that Carry Men Through the World or This Scheming World (世間胸算用, Seken Munazan'yō) by Ihara Saikaku

1693

• The Impartial Critick - John Dennis

1694

• The Fatal Marriage (play) - Thomas Southerne

1696

• Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-Simon starts writings his Memoirs

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