1622 in literature

The year 1622 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

• February 28 - Loiola, a Latin comedy mocking the Jesuits, is acted at Cambridge.
• March 12
  • Teresa of Ávila (died 1582), devotional writer, is canonized by Pope Gregory XV.
  • The performance of Loiola, first seen in February, is repeated before King James I of England.
• November 19 - English writer and politician Sir Percy Herbert, created a baronet three days earlier, marries Elizabeth Craven, daughter of William Craven, a former Lord Mayor of London.
• Lucas Holstenius arrives in Britain to gather material for his Geographi Minores.

New books

• Juan Ruiz de Alarcón - El tejedor de Segovia
• Francis Bacon - The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh
• Elizabeth Knyvet Clinton, Countess of Lincoln - The Countess of Lincoln's Nursery
• Marie de Gournay - Egalité des Hommes et des Femmes ("Equality of Men and Women")
• Henry Peacham - The Compleat Gentleman
• William Shakespeare - Othello (first quarto)

New drama

• Giambattista Andreini - The Centaur published in Paris
• Thomas Dekker & Philip Massinger - The Virgin Martyr published
• John Fletcher and Massinger (and Francis Beaumont?) - Beggars' Bush acted at Court
• Fletcher & Massinger - The Spanish Curate
• Ben Jonson - The Masque of Augurs
• Gervase Markham & William Sampson - Herod and Antipater
• Thomas May - The Heir
• Thomas Middleton & William Rowley - The Changeling
• Middleton & John Webster - Anything for a Quiet Life published

Poetry

• John Taylor - The Water Cormorant His Complaint
• George Wither - Faire-Virtue, The Mistresse of Phil Arete

Births

• January 15 - Molière, dramatist (died 1673)
• February 24 - Johannes Clauberg, philosopher and theologian (died 1655)
• March 28 - Ermes di Colorêt, Italian nobleman and writer (died
• April 11 - Jan van Vliet, philologist (died 1666)
• April 17 - Henry Vaughan (died 1695), poet, and Thomas Vaughan (philosopher) (died 1666), philosopher (twins)
• September 22 - Jacques Savary, economics writer (died 1690)
• date unknown
  • Francesc Fontanella, Catalonian poet and dramatist (died c.1680)
  • Gilbert Mabbot, journalist and licenser of the press 1647-49 (died c. 1670)

Deaths

• April 14 - Antoine de Gaudier, Jesuit theologian (born 1572)
• June 4 - Péter Révay, Hungarian nobleman, poet and historian (born 1568)
• August 21 - Juan de Tassis y Peralta, 2nd Count of Villamediana, poet (murdered) (born 1582)
• October 11 - Conrad Vetter, polemical writer (born 1547)
• November 4 - Francisco Rodrigues Lobo, poet and bucolic writer (born 1580)
• December 19 - Benedetto Justiniani, theologian (born 1550)
• date unknown - Sir George Buck, historian (born 1560)
• probable
  • Henry Ainsworth, clergyman and scholar (born 1571)
  • John Owen, writer of epigrams (born 1564)