1618 in literature

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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.^[1]
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.^[2]
Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet, begins remodelling the Paris residence which becomes the Hôtel de Rambouillet to form a literary salon.

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

Anonymous – The Tragedy of Amurath
Jakob Ayrer (died 1605) – Opus Theatricum published
Guillén de Castro y Bellvis – Comedias, part 1
Lope de Vega
- La moza de cántaro [es] (The Pitcher Girls)
- El rey don Pedro en Madrid
Nathan Field – Amends for Ladies published
John Fletcher – The Loyal Subject
Peter Heylin – Theomachia (in Latin)
Barten Holyday – Technogamia
Ben Jonson – masques
- Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue
- For the Honour of Wales

March 23 – Ferrante Pallavicino, Italian satirist (died 1644)
April – Agustín Moreto y Cavana, Spanish dramatist and priest (died 1661)
Unknown dates
- Thomas Blount, English antiquary and lexicographer, (died 1679)
- Abraham Cowley, English poet (died 1667)
- Raffaello Fabretti, Italian antiquary (died 1700)
- Isaac Vossius, Dutch scholar and librarian (died 1689)
Probable year of birth – Jacques Chausson, French writer and criminal (died 1661)

July – John Davies of Hereford, Anglo-Welsh poet (born c. 1565)
July 26 – Martinus Smiglecius, Polish Jesuit philosopher (born 1563)
August 23 – Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero, Dutch poet (born 1585)
September 22 – Jacobus Taurinus, Dutch theologian (born 1576)^[3]
September 28 – Joshua Sylvester, English poet (born 1563)
October 29 – Sir Walter Ralegh, English adventurer and author (executed, born c. 1554)
Unknown dates
- François de Boivin, French chronicler
- Richard Stanihurst, Irish translator of Virgil (born 1547)
Probable year – Bento Teixeira, Portuguese poet (born c. 1561)