1610 in literature

Events

• June 5 – The masque Tethys' Festival by Samuel Daniel is performed at Whitehall Palace to celebrate the investiture of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales.
• September 7 – Lope de Vega buys a house in Madrid.
• December 12 – Sir Thomas Bodley makes an agreement with the Stationers' Company of London to put a copy of every book registered with it into his new Bodleian Library in the University of Oxford.
• unknown dates
• *The Douay–Rheims Bible, a translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate into English made by members of the English College, Douai, is published under the Catholic Church.
• *At the Dominican Order's printing press at Abucay Church in the Philippines, Tomas Pinpin prints Father Francisco Blancas de San Jose's Arte y Reglas de la Lengua Tagala and his assistant Diego Talaghay prints Pinpin's own Librong Pagaaralan nang mga Tagalog nang Uicang Castilla, the first book written by a native Filipino in the local Tagalog language. It encourages his countrymen to learn Spanish.

  New books

Prose

• Jean Beguin – Tyrocinium Chymicum
• Edmund Bunny –
• William Camden – Britannia, in an enlarged translation by Philemon Holland into English
• Foxe's Book of Martyrs, fourth edition
• John Healey – St. Augustine of the Citie of God, a translation of St. Augustine's De Civitate Dei into English
• :fr:Charles Loyseau|Charles Loyseau – Traité des ordres et simples dignités

  Drama

• Samuel Daniel – Tethys' Festival or the Queenes Wake
• Lope de Vega
• *:es:La buena guarda|La buena guarda
• *El divino africano
• *:es:La hermosa Ester|La hermosa Ester
• John Fletcher – The Faithful Shepherdess
• Ben Jonson
• *The Alchemist
• *The Speeches at Prince Henry's Barriers
• John Marston – Histriomastix
• John Mason – The Turk
• William Shakespeare – Cymbeline

  Poetry

• Giles Fletcher the younger – Christ's Victory and Triumph

  Births

• January 10 – Louis Maimbourg, French historian
• January 15 – Sidney Godolphin, English poet, politician and soldier
• April 1 – Charles de Saint-Évremond, French soldier, critic and essayist
• July 4 – Paul Scarron, French poet, dramatist and novelist
• July 18 – Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra, Spanish dramatist and historian
• July 28 – Henry Glapthorne, English dramatist
• December 18 – Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist and historian
• Unknown dates
• *Richard Bulstrode, English author and soldier
• *Edmund Chilmead, English writer and translator
• *Reinhold Curicke, German historian of the Hanseatic League
• *Jeremias de Dekker, Dutch poet
• *Jin Shengtan, born Jin Renrui, Chinese editor, writer and critic
• *Li Yu, Chinese comic writer
• *François Eudes de Mézeray, French historian
• *Madeleine Patin, French moralist writer

  Deaths

• July – Richard Knolles, English historian
• August 27 – Anne Bacon, English translator
• September 22 – Jan Moretus, Flemish printer
• November 21 – Benet Canfield, English mystical writer
• November 23 – Bernard de Girard Haillan, French historian
• November 28 – Lorenzo Scupoli, Italian theologian
• unknown dates
• *Adam Berg, German printer and publisher
• *Georgios Chortatzis, Greek verse dramatist
• *Nikola Vitov Gučetić, Ragusan philosopher and science writer
• *Yuan Hongdao, Chinese poet
• probable
• *Peter Bales, English inventor of shorthand
• *Philip Stubbs, English pamphleteer