New books and plays

1600
 Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
 England's Helicon (anthology) – including work by Edmund Spenser, Michael
Drayton, Thomas Lodge, Philip Sidney and others
 Old Fortunatus – Thomas Dekker
 The Spanish Moor's Tragedy – Thomas Dekker, John Marston, and William Haughton
1601
 Twelfth Night, or What You Will by William Shakespeare
 Cynthia's Revels – Ben Jonson
 Disputationes Metaphysicae by Francisco Suárez first published
 Satiromastix – Thomas Dekker
1602
 Rymes by Lope de Vega
 Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare
 Antonio and Mellida (play) – John Marston
 Mirum in Modum (poetry) – John Davies of Hereford
 Satiromastix (play) – Thomas Dekker and John Marston
 A Survey of Cornwall – Richard Carew
1603
 The True Law of Free Monarchies by King James VI and I
 Ane Godlie Dreame (poem) by Elizabeth Melville published in Edinburgh
 Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
 Othello by William Shakespeare
 The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe (published)
1604
 All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare
 The Honest Whore (play) – Thomas Dekker
 The Malcontent (play) – John Marston
1605
 Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare
 The Dutch Courtesan (play) – John Marston
 The Tragedy of Philotas (play) – Samuel Daniel
 The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare
  Don Quixote (El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha), Part I – Miguel de
Cervantes
 Epistle concerning the Excellencies of the English Tongue – Richard Carew
1606
 Macbeth by William Shakespeare
 Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
1607
 A Woman Killed with Kindness (play) – Thomas Heywood
 Bussy D'Ambois (play) – George Chapman
 Michaelmas Terme (play) – Thomas Middleton
 The Knight of the Burning Pestle (play) – Francis Beaumont
 The Famous History of Sir Thomas Wyat (play) – Thomas Dekker and John Webster
 The Legend of Great Cromwell – Michael Drayton
 Pericles, Prince of Tyre by William Shakespeare
 The Revenger's Tragedy by Thomas Middleton
1608
 Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
 A Nest of Ninnies – Robert Armin
 Humour out of Breathe (play) – John Day
 The Belman of London (play) – Thomas Dekker
 The Merry Devil of Edmonton (play) – anonymous; has been attributed to William
Shakespeare, Michael Drayton and others.
1609
 The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
 Jersulam Conquered (epic poem) by Lope de Vega
 Fourre Birds of Noahs Arke – Thomas Dekker
1610
 Sidereus Nuncius by Galileo Galilei
 Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
 The Faithful Shepherdess (play) – John Fletcher
1611
 Fuente Ovejuna (play) – Lope de Vega
 The Authorized Version (King James version) of the Bible
 The Tempest by William Shakespeare
  Catiline his Conspiracy (play) – Ben Jonson
 The Roaring Girle (play) – Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton
1612
 Four Soluloquies – Lope de Vega
 El comendador de Ocaña (Ocaña's mayor) – Lope de Vega
 A Woman is a Weather-Cocke – Nathan Field
1613
 Soledades – Luis de Góngora
 La dama boba (the fool lady) – Lope de Vega
 The Dog in the Manger (play) – Lope de Vega
 Henry VIII by William Shakespeare
 Tears on the Death of Moeliades – William Drummond of Hawthornden
 The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois – George Chapman
 Purchas, his Pilgrimage; or, Relations of the World and the Religions observed in all
Ages – Samuel Purchas
1614
 Bartholomew Fair (play) – Ben Jonson
 La Lira by Giambattista Marino
 Fama fraternitatis Roseae Crucis oder Die Bruderschaft des Ordens der
Rosenkreuzer – Johannes Valentinus Andreae
1615
 Don Quixote, Part II – Miguel de Cervantes
 El caballero de Olmedo (The knight from Olmedo) (play) – Lope de Vega
 Confessio oder Bekenntnis der Societät und Bruderschaft Rosenkreuz – Johannes
Valentinus Andreae
1616
 Ben Jonson's Works
 The Whole Works of Homer – George Chapman
 Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz Anno 1459 – Johannes Valentinus Andreae
 Rollo, Duke of Normandy (also known as The Bloody Brother) (?1616–30?) – John
Fletcher, Ben Jonson, Philip Massinger, George Chapman (The drinking song)
1617
 Warenar (play) by Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft
 A Faire Quarrell (play) – Thomas Middleton and William Rowley
1618
 History of Tythes – John Selden
 Amends for Ladies (play) – Nathan Field
1619
 A King and No King (play) – Beaumont and Fletcher
 The Maid's Tragedy (play) – Beaumont and Fletcher
 The Shoemaker's Holiday – Thomas Deloney
 The Custome of the Countrey – John Fletcher and Philip Massinger
 Reipublicae Christianopolitanae descriptio – Johannes Valentinus Andreae
1620
 Philaster – Beaumont and Fletcher
1621
 The Anatomy of Melancholy – Robert Burton
 Women Beware Women – Thomas Middleton
 El vergonzoso en palacio – Tirso de Molina
 The Countess of Montgomery's Urania – Lady Mary Wroth
1622
 The Heir (play) – Thomas May
 The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh – Francis Bacon
 The French Disease – Richard Brome
 The Beggar's Bush – John Fletcher
 El tejedor de Segovia – Juan Ruiz de Alarcón
 The Changeling – Thomas Middleton and William Rowley text
1623
 L'Adone by Giambattista Marino
 Love, honour and power (play) – Pedro Calderón de la Barca
 The Duchess of Malfi – John Webster
 First Folio – William Shakespeare
1624
 Circe (poem) bu Lope de Vega
 Nero Caesar, or Monarchie Depraved – Edmund Bolton
 The Sun's Darling – John Ford
1625
 De jure belli ac pacis by Hugo Grotius
  Complete Essays – Francis Bacon
 Les Bergeries – Racan
1626
 El Buscón – Francisco de Quevedo
1627
 England's schim (play) – Pedro Calderón de la Barca
 The Bataile of Agincourt – Michael Drayton
 First Steps up Parnassus – Michael Drayton
1628
 Microcosmographie – John Earle
1629
 The Roman Actor (play) – Philip Massinger
 La Dama Duende (play) – Pedro Calderón de la Barca
 The Tragedy of Albovine (play) – William D'Avenant
1630
 The Conceited Pedlar – Thomas Randolph
1631
 The punishment without vengeance (play) – Lope de Vega
1632
 L'Allegro – John Milton
 La Dorotea – Lope de Vega
 The Fatal Dowry (play) – Nathan Field and Philip Massinger
 Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems by Galileo Galilei
 The Muses’ Looking-Glass by Thomas Randolph
1633
 A New Way to Pay Old Debts (play) – Philip Massinger
 Love's Sacrifice (play) – John Ford
 The Gamester (play) – James Shirley
 The Temple (poetry) – George Herbert
1634
 Tottenham Court (play) – Thomas Nabbes
1636
 Life is a dream (play) – Pedro Calderón de la Barca
 Le Cid (play) – Pierre Corneille
1637
 La Vega del Parnaso (Parnasos' river bank) – Lope de Vega
 Discourse on the Method – René Descartes
1638
 Two New Sciences by Galileo Galilei
 Alcione (play) – Pierre du Ryer
1639
 Argalus and Parthenia (play) – Henry Glapthorne
 The City Match – Jasper Mayne
1640
 Horace (play) – Pierre Corneille
 The Bay Psalm Book, the first book printed in North America
 Joseph's partly-coloured Coat – Thomas Fuller
1641
 Meditations on First Philosophy – René Descartes
 Episcopacy by Divine Right – Joseph Hall
 The Cardinall (play) – James Shirley (first extant edition, 1652)
 A Joviall Crew (play) – Richard Brome (first extant edition, 1652)
1642
 September: Playhouses closed in England by government order.
 Religio Medici Sir Thomas Browne
 Saul (play) by Pierre du Ryer
1644
 Principles of Philosophy – René Descartes
 Areopagitica by John Milton
1646
 Andronicus or the Unfortunate Politician – Thomas Fuller
 Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Vulgar Errors – Sir Thomas Browne
1647
 Philosophical Poems – Henry More
1648
 The Amorous War – Jasper Mayne
 Hesperides by Robert Herrick (poet)
1649
  Eikon Basilike – John Gauden
1650
 Silex scintillans – Henry Vaughan
1651
 El alcalde de Zalamea – Pedro Calderón de la Barca
 Leviathan – Thomas Hobbes
 Reliquiae Wottonianiae – Sir Henry Wotton (posthumous)
 Jeune Alcidiane – Marin le Roy de Gomberville
1652
 Brief Character of the Low Countries – Owen Feltham
 Theophilia or Love's Sacrifice (poetry) – Edward Benlowes
 The Cardinall (play) – James Shirley
1653
 A History of New England – Edward Johnson
 The Compleat Angler – Izaak Walton
 Poems and Fancies – Margaret Cavendish
 The Princess Cloria – Percy Herbert, 2nd Baron Powis
1654
 Lucifer (play) – Joost van den Vondel
 Parlhenissa, a novel – Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery
1655
 L'Étourdi ou les Contretemps first play by Molière
1656
 El gran teatro del mundo (World's great theatre) (play) – Pedro Calderón de la Barca
 Nature's Pictures – Margaret Cavendish
 Oceana by James Harrington
1657
 Guárdate del agua mansa (Keep out from silent waters) – Pedro Calderón de la Barca
 Katharina von Georgien (play) by Andreas Gryphius
1658
 Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial – Sir Thomas Browne
 The Garden of Cyrus -Sir Thomas Browne
1659
 Lucasta – Richard Lovelace (posthumous)
  Pharonnida – William Chamberlayne
1661
 Elementa jurisprudentiae universalis libri duo by Samuel von Pufendorf
1662
 A new edition of the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England (this edition
remains the officially authorised book to the present day).
1664
 La Thébaïde (play) – Jean Racine
1665
 Alexandre le Grand (Alexander the Great) (play) – Jean Racine
 Memoires of François Bassompierre (posthumous)
1666
 Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners by John Bunyan
1667
 Paradise Lost by John Milton
 Andromaque by Jean Racine
 Annus Mirabilis, the Year of Wonders 1666 – John Dryden
 Secret Love (play) – John Dryden
1668
 Le Tartuffe – Molière
 The Miser – Molière
 Simplicius Simplicissimus – Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
 Cyprianus Anglicanus – Peter Heylin
 Essay of Dramatick Poesie – John Dryden
 Observations upon Experimental Philosophy – Margaret Cavendish
1670
 Pensées by Blaise Pascal
 The Conquest of Granada – John Dryden
1671
 Madame de Sévigné writes her first letter
 Samson Agonistes – John Milton
 The Rehearsal (play) – George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham performed
 Hayy ibn Yaqdhan by Ibn Tufail – translated into Latin by Edward Pococke the Younger
as Philosophus Autodidactus
1672
 Bajacet (play) by Jean Racine
 Marriage à la mode by John Dryden
 The Rehearsal (play) by George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham published
 Hayy ibn Yaqdhan by Ibn Tufail – translated into Dutch by Johannes Bouwmeester
1674
 Iphigénie (play) by Jean Racine
 The Tragedy of Nero, Emperour of Rome (play) – Nathaniel Lee
1675
 The Country Wife by William Wycherley
 Gerania; a New Discovery of a Little Sort of People, anciently discoursed of, called
Pygmies by Joshua Barnes
1676
 The Man of Mode (play) – George Etherege
 English-Adventures by a Person of Honor – Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery
1677
 Phèdre – Jean Racine
 Treatise of the Art of War – Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery
1678
 All for Love – John Dryden
 The True Intellectual System of the Universe – Ralph Cudworth
 The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
 Threnodia Carolina – Sir Thomas Herbert
1679
 Anima Mundi – Charles Blount
1680
 The Life and Death of Mr Badman – John Bunyan
1681
 Miscellaneous Poems by Andrew Marvell (posthumous)
 Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden
1682
 The Life of an Amorous Man (好色一代男, Kōshoku Ichidai Otoko) by Ihara Saikaku
1685
 Five Women Who Loved Love (好色五人女, Kōshoku Gonin Onna) by Ihara Saikaku
1686
 Hayy ibn Yaqdhan by Ibn Tufail – translated into English by George Ashwell
 The Life of an Amorous Woman (好色一代女, Kōshoku Ichidai Onna) by Ihara Saikaku
1687
 Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica - Isaac Newton
 The Hind and the Panther – John Dryden
 The Hind and the Panther Transversed to the Story of the Country and the City
Mouse – Matthew Prior
 Bellamira, or The Mistress (play) – Sir Charles Sedley
 The Great Mirror of Male Love (The Encyclopedia of Male Love) (男色大鑑, Nanshoku
Okagami) by Ihara Saikaku
1688
 The Eternal Storehouse of Japan (日本永代蔵, Nippon Eitaigura) by Ihara Saikaku
1689
 The Massacre of Paris (play) – Nathaniel Lee
 Table Talk – John Selden (posthumous)
1690
 Amphitryon, or the Two Socias – John Dryden
 An Essay Concerning Human Understanding – John Locke
 Memoires of the Navy by Samuel Pepys
1691
 Athalie (play) – Jean Racine
1692
 Reckonings that Carry Men Through the World or This Scheming World (世間胸算用
, Seken Munazan'yō) by Ihara Saikaku
1693
 The Impartial Critick – John Dennis
1694
 The Fatal Marriage (play) – Thomas Southerne
1696
 Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-Simon starts writings his Memoirs
1697
 A New Voyage Round the World – William Dampier
1698
  The Campaigners (play) – Thomas D'Urfey
1699
 Dialogues of the Dead – William King and Charles Boyle