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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1612.

Events

January 6 – Ben Jonson's masque Love Restored is performed.^[1]
January 12 – The King's Men and Queen Anne's Men unite for the first of two English Court performances in January, with Thomas Heywood's The Silver Age
January 13 – The King's Men perform Heywood's The Rape of Lucrece.^[2]
February 2 – Queen Anne's Men return to court to play Greene's Tu Quoque.^[3]
May 11 – Shakespeare testifies in the Bellott v. Mountjoy lawsuit which involves his London landlord.
November 6 – Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, eldest son and heir to King James I of England, dies of typhoid fever. His coterie of followers, which included literary figures like Ben Jonson and John Selden, are forced to seek other patrons.^[4]
unknown dates
- Thomas Shelton publishes The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-Errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha, the first translation of Cervantes' novel Don Quixote (first part) into English (or any other language).
- The Accademia della Crusca publishes the first dictionary of the Italian language.
- "Printers Bible": Some copies of the King James Version of the Bible printed in England this year contain an erratum with Psalm 119:161 reading "printers" (rather than "princes") "have persecuted me without a cause."

New books

Traiano Boccalini – Ragguagli di Parnasso^[5]
John Brinsley – Ludus literarius; or The Grammar Schoole^[6]
John Davies – Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued^[7]
John Davies of Hereford – The Picture of a Happy Man^[8]
Edward Grimeston
- The Generall Historie of Spaine (translated from French)
- The General History of the Magnificent State of Venice
Thomas Heywood – An Apology for Actors^[9]
Antonius Magirus – Koock-boeck ofte Familieren kevken-boeck^[10]
William Strachey - The Historie of Travaile Into Virginia Britannia^[11]
Francisco de Quevedo – La cuna y la sepultura^[12]

New drama

George Chapman – The Widow's Tears published
Robert Daborne – A Christian Turn'd Turk published^[13]
Nathan Field – A Woman is a Weathercock published^[14]
Ben Jonson – Love Restored (masque)
John Webster – The White Devil published^[15]

Poetry

Michael Drayton – Poly-Olbion^[15]
Luis de Góngora – Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea (Fable of Polyphemus and Galatea)
Expanded edition of The Passionate Pilgrim
George Wither – Elegy on the death of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales

Births

February 6 – Antoine Arnauld, French theologian and philosopher (died 1694)^[16]
February 7 – Thomas Killigrew, English dramatist (died 1683)^[17]
February 8 – Samuel Butler, English poet and satirist (died 1680)^[18]
February 28 – John Pearson, English theologian and scholar (died 1686)
March 4 (bapt.) – Jan Vos, Dutch poet and dramatist (died 1667)
March 20 – Anne Bradstreet, née Dudley, English-born American poet (died 1672)
unknown date – Edward King, English poet (died 1637)
probable – John Rushworth, English lawyer and historian (died 1690)

Deaths

February – John Gerard (John Gerarde), English botanist and author of herbal (born c. 1545)
March 16 – Thomas Holland, English theologian and Bible translator (born 1539)
April 11 – Emanuel van Meteren, Flemish historian (born 1535)^[19]
June 1 – Carlos Félix, 6-year-old son of Lope de Vega.^[20]
July 29 – Jacques Bongars, French diplomat and scholar (born 1554)^[21]
August 4 – Hugh Broughton, English Biblical scholar (born 1549)
September – Giovanni de' Bardi, Italian music theorist and critic (born 1534)
September 24 – Johannes Lippius, German theologian, philosopher, composer, and music theorist (born 1585)^[22]
September 27 – Piotr Skarga (Piotr Powęski), Polish hagiographer (born 1536)^[23]
October 7 – Giovanni Battista Guarini, Italian poet (born 1538)^[24]
November 20 – Sir John Harington, English courtier, writer and inventor of flush toilet (born 1560)^[25]

References

^ Chambers, E. K. (1923). The Elizabethan Stage. Vol. 3. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 387.
^ Thomas James King (1971). Shakespearean Staging, 1599-1642. Harvard University Press. p. 63. ISBN 978-0-674-80490-6.
^ John Pitcher (March 1999). Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. p. 329. ISBN 978-0-8386-3805-7.
^ Strong, Roy (1986). Henry, Prince of Wales and England's Lost Renaissance. London: Pimlico.
^ Alan Houston; Steve Pincus (20 August 2001). A Nation Transformed: England After the Restoration. Cambridge University Press. p. 269. ISBN 978-0-521-80252-9.
^ John Roach (1998). A Regional Study of Yorkshire Schools, 1500-1820. E. Mellen Press. p. 145. ISBN 978-0-7734-8250-0.
^ Audrey Horning (16 December 2013). Ireland in the Virginian Sea: Colonialism in the British Atlantic. UNC Press Books. p. 185. ISBN 978-1-4696-1073-3.
^ John W. Cousin (1938). Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. Library of Alexandria. p. 169. ISBN 978-1-4655-7188-5.
^ Laura C. Lambdin; Robert T. Lambdin (2008). Arthurian Writers: A Biographical Encyclopedia. p. 146. ISBN 978-0-313-34682-8.
^ Joop Witteveen; Bart Cuperus (1998). Bibliotheca gastronomica: eten en drinken in Nederland en België 1474-1960 (in Dutch). Linnaeus. p. 227. ISBN 978-90-6105-035-3.
^ Lee Miller (2001). Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony. Arcade Publishing. p. 340. ISBN 978-1-55970-584-4.
^ Richard E. Chandler; Kessel Schwartz (1 September 1991). A New History of Spanish Literature. LSU Press. p. 319. ISBN 978-0-8071-1735-4.
^ Jacob Lopes Cardozo (1968). The Contemporary Jew in the Elizabethan Drama. B. Franklin. p. xiii.
^ Lukas Erne (25 April 2013). Shakespeare and the Book Trade. Cambridge University Press. p. 102. ISBN 978-0-521-76566-4.
^ ^a ^b Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 243–248. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
^ The History of Paris, from the Earliest Period to the Present Day. 1825. p. 424.
^ Christopher Baker (2002). Absolutism and the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1720: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 206. ISBN 978-0-313-30827-7.
^ John Scott Clark (1974). A Study of English and American Writers: A Laboratory Method. AMS Press. p. 167. ISBN 978-0-404-01559-6.
^ Walpole Society (Great Britain) (1980). The ... Volume of the Walpole Society. Walpole Society. p. 205.
^ Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Félix de Lope de Vega Carpio" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
^ Keith Busby (1993). Les Manuscrits de Chrétien de Troyes. Rodopi. p. 98. ISBN 90-5183-603-1.
^ Benito V. Rivera (1980). German Music Theory in the Early 17th Century: The Treatises of Johannes Lippius. UMI Research Press. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-8357-1074-9.
^ Harvard Theological Studies. Scholars Press. 1995. p. 865. ISBN 978-0-8006-7085-6.
^ Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800. Gale Research Company. 2004. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-7876-6968-3.
^ Jason Scott-Warren (2001). Sir John Harington and the Book as Gift. Oxford University Press. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-19-924445-4.

[1] Chambers, E. K. (1923). The Elizabethan Stage. Vol. 3. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 387.

[2] Thomas James King (1971). Shakespearean Staging, 1599-1642. Harvard University Press. p. 63. ISBN 978-0-674-80490-6.

[3] John Pitcher (March 1999). Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. p. 329. ISBN 978-0-8386-3805-7.

[4] Strong, Roy (1986). Henry, Prince of Wales and England's Lost Renaissance. London: Pimlico.

[5] Alan Houston; Steve Pincus (20 August 2001). A Nation Transformed: England After the Restoration. Cambridge University Press. p. 269. ISBN 978-0-521-80252-9.

[6] John Roach (1998). A Regional Study of Yorkshire Schools, 1500-1820. E. Mellen Press. p. 145. ISBN 978-0-7734-8250-0.

[7] Audrey Horning (16 December 2013). Ireland in the Virginian Sea: Colonialism in the British Atlantic. UNC Press Books. p. 185. ISBN 978-1-4696-1073-3.

[8] John W. Cousin (1938). Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. Library of Alexandria. p. 169. ISBN 978-1-4655-7188-5.

[9] Laura C. Lambdin; Robert T. Lambdin (2008). Arthurian Writers: A Biographical Encyclopedia. p. 146. ISBN 978-0-313-34682-8.

[10] Joop Witteveen; Bart Cuperus (1998). Bibliotheca gastronomica: eten en drinken in Nederland en België 1474-1960 (in Dutch). Linnaeus. p. 227. ISBN 978-90-6105-035-3.

[Miller2001-11] Lee Miller (2001). Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony. Arcade Publishing. p. 340. ISBN 978-1-55970-584-4.

[12] Richard E. Chandler; Kessel Schwartz (1 September 1991). A New History of Spanish Literature. LSU Press. p. 319. ISBN 978-0-8071-1735-4.

[13] Jacob Lopes Cardozo (1968). The Contemporary Jew in the Elizabethan Drama. B. Franklin. p. xiii.

[14] Lukas Erne (25 April 2013). Shakespeare and the Book Trade. Cambridge University Press. p. 102. ISBN 978-0-521-76566-4.

[Cassell's_Chronology-15] Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 243–248. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.

[16] The History of Paris, from the Earliest Period to the Present Day. 1825. p. 424.

[17] Christopher Baker (2002). Absolutism and the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1720: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 206. ISBN 978-0-313-30827-7.

[18] John Scott Clark (1974). A Study of English and American Writers: A Laboratory Method. AMS Press. p. 167. ISBN 978-0-404-01559-6.

[19] Walpole Society (Great Britain) (1980). The ... Volume of the Walpole Society. Walpole Society. p. 205.

[20] Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Félix de Lope de Vega Carpio" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

[21] Keith Busby (1993). Les Manuscrits de Chrétien de Troyes. Rodopi. p. 98. ISBN 90-5183-603-1.

[22] Benito V. Rivera (1980). German Music Theory in the Early 17th Century: The Treatises of Johannes Lippius. UMI Research Press. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-8357-1074-9.

[23] Harvard Theological Studies. Scholars Press. 1995. p. 865. ISBN 978-0-8006-7085-6.

[24] Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800. Gale Research Company. 2004. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-7876-6968-3.

[25] Jason Scott-Warren (2001). Sir John Harington and the Book as Gift. Oxford University Press. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-19-924445-4.

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