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
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• Turris Babel
• Jacob Boehme – ' (On the Three Principles of Divine Being)
• Philipp Clüver
• Sardinia et Corsica Antiqua
• Siciliae Antique libri duo
• Robert Fludd – ' (The History of the Two Worlds, Volume 2)
• Johannes Kepler – ' (an attack on Fludd's Neoplatonist cosmology)
• John Pitseus – '
• 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

• 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
• '
• 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 – ' (a defence of the new Church of England)
• George Wither – Fidelia