1625 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1625. Events January 1 – The King's Men act Henry IV, Part 1 (described as The First Part of Sir John Falstaff ) at Whitehall Palace. January 9 – Ben Jonson's masque The Fortunate Isles and Their Union (designed by Inigo Jones) is played before the English Court in London, becoming the last of the Jacobean era. February 12 – John Milton enters Christ's College, Cambridge, aged 16. March 27 – On the death of King James VI of Scotland and I of England and Ireland, patron of the King James Bible and essayist, he is succeeded by his son, the Prince of Wales. At the same time, theatres are closed because of an outbreak of plague and do not reopen until December. April – Sir Richard Baker's Oxfordshire property is seized as a result of debts. August 2–September 26 – Playwright Cyril Tourneur becomes secretary to the Council of War. On October 8 he joins the catastrophic Cádiz expedition in another secretarial post under Sir Edward Cecil and on December 11 is put ashore from the returning fleet at Kinsale in Ireland, terminally ill. December – After the closure of the London public theatres for most of the year due to an outbreak of bubonic plague, a new company, Queen Henrietta's Men, is formed under the patronage of the new queen (whom Charles I had married in May 1625), and gives its first performances at the Cockpit Theatre. It replaces the dormant Queen Elizabeth's Men. New books Prose Francis Bacon – Complete Essays Alonso de Castillo Solórzano – Tardes entretenidas Hugo Grotius – De jure belli ac pacis Musaeum Hermeticum Samuel Purchas – Hakluytus Posthumus, or Purchas his Pilgrimes Ludovico Zuccolo – La Repubblica d' Evandria