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The year 1610 in literature involved some significant literary events and new books.
Events
- Sir Thomas Bodley makes an agreement with the Stationers' Company of London to put a copy of every book registered with them into his new Bodleian Library in the University of Oxford.[1]
- Completion of publication of the Douay–Rheims Bible (The Holie Bible Faithfully Translated into English), a translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate into English made by members of the English College, Douai, in the service of the Catholic Church.[2]
New books
- Jean Beguin – Tyrocinium Chymicum
- William Camden – Britannia, posthumously in an enlarged translation by Philemon Holland into English
- Foxe's Book of Martyrs, fourth edition
- John Healey – St. Augustine of the Citie of God, a translation of St. Augustine's De Civitate Dei into English
- Sylvester Jourdan – A Discovery of the Barmudas, otherwise called the Ile of Divels
- Charles Loyseau – Traité des ordres et simples dignités
- Richard Rich – News from Virginia: the Lost Flock Triumphant
New drama
- Samuel Daniel – Tethys Festival or the Queenes Wake (masque)
- John Fletcher – The Faithful Shepherdess
- Ben Jonson
- John Marston – Histriomastix (published)
- John Mason – The Turk (published)
- William Shakespeare – Cymbeline[4]
Poetry
- Giles Fletcher the younger – Christ's Victory and Triumph
Births
- January 15 (bapt.) – Sidney Godolphin, English poet (died 1643)
- April 1 – Charles de Saint-Évremond, French soldier, critic and essayist (died 1703)
- July 4 – Paul Scarron, French poet, dramatist and novelist (died 1660)
- July 28 (bapt.) – Henry Glapthorne, English dramatist (died c.1643)
- December 18 – Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist and historian (died 1688)
- date unknown
- Richard Bulstrode, English author and soldier (died 1711)
- Edmund Chilmead, English writer and translator (died 1654)
- Reinhold Curicke, historian of the Hanseatic League (died 1667)
- Li Yu, controversial comic writer (died 1680)
- Louis Maimbourg, historian (died 1686)
- François-Eudes de Mézeray, French historian (died 1683)
- Jan Vos, Dutch poet and dramatist (died 1667)
- probable – Jeremias de Dekker, Dutch poet (died 1666)
Deaths
- July – Richard Knolles, historian (born c.1545)
- November 21 – Benet Canfield, mystical writer (born 1562)
- November 28 – Lorenzo Scupoli, theologian (born c.1530)
- date unknown
- Anne Bacon, English translator (born c.1528)
- Adam Berg, printer and publisher (born 1540)
- Georgios Chortatzis, verse dramatist (born c.1545)
- Nikola Vitov Gučetić, philosopher and science writer (born 1549)
- Bernard de Girard Haillan, French historian (born c.1535)
- Jan Moretus, Flemish printer (born 1543)
- Yuan Hongdao, poet (born 1568)
- probable
- Peter Bales, inventor of shorthand (born 1547)
- Alexander Montgomerie, poet (born c.1545)
- Philip Stubbs, pamphleteer (born c.1555)
References
- ^ Nicoll, Allardyce, ed. (1951). Shakespeare Survey Vol. 4: An Annual Survey of Shakespearean Study & Production. Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Pope, Hugh (July–October 1910). "The Origin of the Douay Bible". The Dublin Review. 147 (294–295). London.
{{cite journal}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 243–248. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 170–172. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.