See also: 1610 in literature, other events of 1611, 1612 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

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

New drama

• Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton - The Roaring Girle
• Ben Jonson - Catiline His Conspiracy
• William Shakespeare - The Tempest
• John Webster - The White Devil

Births

• September 1 - William Cartwright, dramatist
• October 26 - Antonio Coello, dramatist and poet
• date unknown - Richard Alleine, religious writer
• date unknown - Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy, writer on art
• date unknown - Thomas Urquhart, translator
• probable - Jean François Sarrazin, satirist

Deaths

• June 8 - Jean Bertaut, poet
• September 22 - Pedro de Ribadeneira, ecclesiastical historian
• date unknown - Benet Canfield, mystical writer
• date unknown - Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, historian
• date unknown - Martin Ruland the younger, alchemist and editor of his father's writings

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