1619 in literature

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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
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• • 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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

New books

Prose

• Johannes Valentinus Andreae
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  • Turris Babel
• Jacob Boehme – {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (On the Three Principles of Divine Being)
• Philipp Clüver
  • Sardinia et Corsica Antiqua
  • Siciliae Antique libri duo
• Robert Fludd – {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (The History of the Two Worlds, Volume 2)
• Johannes Kepler – {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (an attack on Fludd's Neoplatonist cosmology)
• John Pitseus – {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}
• 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
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• 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 – Template:Proper name (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
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• • Shalom Shabazi, Jewish Yemeni poet (died 1720)
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  • 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)
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• 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)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 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)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>