1619 in literature

• 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 • '''' • 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 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 • '''' • 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 ==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 • Morgan Llwyd, Welsh preacher, poet and writer (died 1659) • Shalom Shabazi, Jewish Yemeni poet (died 1720) • probable • 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) • February 12 – Pierre de Larivey, Italian-born French dramatist (born 1549) • 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) • 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) ==References==