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

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
• The Changeling - Thomas Middleton and William Rowley text (http://www.tech.org/~cleary/change.html)

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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