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The year 1611 in literature involved some significant events.
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Events
- January 1 - Oberon, the Faery Prince, a masque written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed at Whitehall Palace.
- February 3 - Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly, another Jonson/Jones masque, is staged at Whitehall.
- November 1 - The King's Men perform The Tempest at Whitehall Palace.
- November 5 - The King's Men perform The Winter's Tale at Whitehall Palace.
- December 26 - The King's Men return to Court with Beaumont and Fletcher's A King and No King
- December 27 - Queen Anne's Men act one of their most popular plays, Greene's Tu Quoque.
- Juan Ruiz de Alarcón returns to Spain from Mexico.
New books
- Thomas Coryat - Coryat's Crudities hastily gobbled up in Five Months Travels in France, Italy, &c
- John Donne - An Anatomy of the World
- King James Version of the Bible
- Samuel Rowlands - The Knave of Clubs
- John Speed:
- The History of Great Britain
- The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain (map atlas)
New drama
- Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher - A King and No King
- George Chapman - May Day published
- John Cooke (?) - Greene's Tu Quoque
- Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton - The Roaring Girl published
- Thomas Dekker - If This Be Not a Good Play, the Devil Is In It
- Thomas Heywood - The Golden Age published
- Ben Jonson - Oberon, the Faery Prince
- Anthony Munday - Chryso-Thriambos
- Thomas Middleton (attributed to) - The Second Maiden's Tragedy
- William Shakespeare - The Tempest (consensus date)
- Cyril Tourneur - The Atheist's Tragedy published
Poetry
- Richard Braithwaite - The Golden Fleece
- Emilia Lanier - Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum
Births
- September 1 - William Cartwright, dramatist (died 1643)
- October 26 - Antonio Coello, dramatist and poet (died 1652)
- date unknown - Richard Alleine, religious writer (died 1681)
- date unknown - Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy, writer on art (died 1665)
- date unknown - Thomas Urquhart, translator (died c1660)
- probable - Jean François Sarrazin, satirist (died 1654)
Deaths
- June 8 - Jean Bertaut, poet (born 1552)
- September 22 - Pedro de Ribadeneira, ecclesiastical historian (born 1527)
- date unknown - Benet Canfield, mystical writer (born 1562)
- date unknown - Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, historian (born 1563)
- date unknown - Martin Ruland the younger, alchemist and editor of his father's writings
