1626 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1626. Events February – The King's Men premiere Ben Jonson's satire on the new newsgathering enterprise The Staple of News, his first new play in almost a decade, at the Blackfriars Theatre in London. November – The deaths of Lancelot Andrewes and Nicholas Felton, Bishop of Ely, prompt John Milton, then a student at Cambridge, to write elegies in Latin for both. December 27 – Izaak Walton marries Rachel Floud (died 1640). New books Prose Francis Bacon – The New Atlantis Nicholas Breton – Fantastickes Alonso de Castillo Solórzano – Jornadas alegres Robert Fludd – Philosophia Sacra Marie de Gournay – Les Femmes et Grief des Dames (The Ladies' Grievance) Francisco de Quevedo – El Buscón (first published edition – unauthorized)