1618 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1618. Events January – Lady Hay and eight other Court ladies plan and rehearse a Ladies' Masque or Masque for Ladies, intended for a Twelfth Night performance, but it is cancelled a few days before, either by King James or Queen Anne. January 4 – Sir Francis Bacon is appointed Lord Chancellor by King James I of England. April 6 (Easter Monday) – The King's Men perform Twelfth Night at Court. April 7 – The King's Men perform The Winter's Tale at Court. July – Ben Jonson sets out to walk to Scotland. Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet, begins remodelling the Paris residence which becomes the Hôtel de Rambouillet to form a literary salon. New books Prose William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley – Certain Precepts or Directions, For the Well-ordering and Carriage of a Man's Life Renold Elstracke – Braziliologia Vicente Espinel – Relaciones de la vida del escudero Marcos de Obregón Robert Fludd – De Musica Mundana Michael Maier – Atalanta Fugiens Themis aurea Daniel Mögling – Speculum Sophicum Rhodo-Stauroticum John Selden – History of Tythes