1625 in literature

The year 1625 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

• January 1 - The King's Men act Henry IV, Part 1 at Whitehall Palace.
• October - Following the closure of the London theatres for most of the year, due to an outbreak of bubonic plague, .the epidemic abates with the cooler weather, and a new company is formed under royal patronage: Queen Henrietta's Men.
• John Milton enters Christ's College, Cambridge.
• Sir Richard Baker's Oxfordshire property is seized as a result of his debts.
• Cyril Tourneur becomes secretary to the council of war and joins the catastrophic Cadiz expedition under Sir Edward Cecil.

New books

• Francis Bacon - Complete Essays
• Hugo Grotius - De jure belli ac pacis
• Musaeum Hermeticum
• Ludovico Zuccolo - La Repubblica d' Evandria

New drama

• John Fletcher and Philip Massinger - The Elder Brother
• Alexandre Hardy - Mariamne (published)
• Ben Jonson
  • The Staple of News
  • The Fortunate Isles and Their Union
• Racan - Les bergeries
• James Shirley - Love Tricks, or the School of Complement

Poetry

• Honoré d'Urfé - Sylvanire

Births

• May 25 - John Davies, translator (died 1693)
• August 20 - Thomas Corneille, dramatist (died 1709)
• date unknown - François Bernier, travel writer (died 1688)

Deaths

• January 29 - Jacob Gretser, Jesuit writer (born 1562)
• March 25 - Giambattista Marino, epic poet (born 1569)
• June 1 - Honoré d'Urfé, novelist (born 1568)
• August - John Fletcher, dramatist (born 1579)
• September - Thomas Lodge, dramatist (born c.1558)
• September 6 - Thomas Dempster, historian (born 1579)
• September 20 - Heinrich Meibom, poet and historian (born 1555)
• date unknown - Thomas Lodge, dramatist (born c. 1558)