1624 in literature

The year 1624 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

• January 18 - The King's Men perform Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale at Whitehall Palace.
• August 5–14 - The King's Men perform Thomas Middleton's satire A Game at Chess at the Globe Theatre, London, until it is suppressed in view of its allusions to the Spanish Match.
• December - The King's Men get into further trouble for performing Philip Massinger's The Spanish Viceroy without a licence from the Master of the Revels.

New books

• Anonymous - The Origin of Idolatry (falsely attributed to Isaac Casaubon)
• Jean Louis Guez de Balzac - Lettres
• Philipp Clüver - Italia Antiqua (posthumous)
• John Donne - Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
• Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury - De Veritate ("On Truth")
• Tirso de Molina - Cigarrales de Toledo
• Captain John Smith - The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles
• Sir Henry Wotton - The Elements of Architecture (translation of Vitruvius)

New drama

• Anonymous - Nero (published)
• Robert Davenport - The City Nightcap
• Thomas Drue - The Duchess of Suffolk
• John Ford and Thomas Dekker - The Sun's Darling
• Ben Jonson - Neptune's Triumph for the Return of Albion
• Philip Massinger
  • The Parliament of Love
  • The Bondman (published)
• Thomas Middleton - A Game at Chess

Poetry

• Bernardo de Balbuena - El Bernardo

Births

• February 11 - Ivan Ančić, theologian (died 1685)
• October 30 - Paul Pellisson, historian (died 1693)

Deaths

• February 4 - Vicente Espinel, writer and musician (born 1550)
• February 13 - Stephen Gosson, satirist (born 1544)
• February 16 - Luis de la Puente, theologian (born 1554)
• February 24 - Paul Laurentius, theologian (born 1544)
• November 17 - Jakob Böhme, German theologian (born 1575)