1612 in literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1612 .Events January 6 – Ben Jonson's masque Love Restored is performed. January 12 – The King's Men and Queen Anne's Men unite for the first of two English Court performances in January, with Thomas Heywood's The Silver Age January 13 – The King's Men perform Heywood's The Rape of Lucrece . February 2 – Queen Anne's Men return to court to play Greene's Tu Quoque . May 11 – Shakespeare testifies in the Bellott v. Mountjoy lawsuit. November 6 – Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales , eldest son and heir to King James I of England , dies of typhoid fever . His coterie of followers, which included literary figures like Ben Jonson and John Selden , are forced to seek other patrons. unknown dates *Thomas Shelton publishes The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-Errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha , the first translation of Cervantes' novel Don Quixote into English. *The Accademia della Crusca publishes the first dictionary of the Italian language . *"Printers Bible": Some copies of the King James Version of the Bible printed in England this year contain an erratum with Psalm 119:161 reading "printers" "have persecuted me without a cause."New books Traiano Boccalini – Ragguagli di Parnasso John Brinsley – Ludus literarius; or The Grammar Schoole John Davies – Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued John Davies of Hereford – The Picture of a Happy Man Edward Grimeston * The Generall Historie of Spaine * The General History of the Magnificent State of Venice Thomas Heywood – An Apology for Actors Antonius Magirus – Koock-boeck ofte Familieren kevken-boeck William Strachey - The Historie of Travaile Into Virginia Britannia Francisco de Quevedo – La cuna y la sepultura New drama George Chapman – The Widow's Tears published Robert Daborne – A Christian Turn'd Turk published Nathan Field – A Woman is a Weathercock published Ben Jonson – Love Restored John Webster – The White Devil publishedPoetry Michael Drayton – Poly-Olbion Luis de Góngora – Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea Expanded edition of The Passionate Pilgrim George Wither – Elegy on the death of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales Births February 6 – Antoine Arnauld , French theologian and philosopher February 7 – Thomas Killigrew , English dramatist February 28 – John Pearson , English theologian and scholar March 4 – Jan Vos , Dutch poet and dramatist March 20 – Anne Bradstreet , née Dudley, English-born American poet December 4 – Samuel Butler , English poet and satirist unknown date – Edward King , English poet probable – John Rushworth , English lawyer and historianDeaths February – John Gerard , English botanist and author of herbal March 16 – Thomas Holland , English theologian and Bible translator April 11 – Emanuel van Meteren , Flemish historian June 1 – Carlos Félix , 6-year-old son of Lope de Vega . July 29 – Jacques Bongars , French diplomat and scholar August 4 – Hugh Broughton , English Biblical scholar September – Giovanni de' Bardi , Italian music theorist and critic September 27 – Piotr Skarga , Polish hagiographer October 7 – Giovanni Battista Guarini , Italian poet November 20 – Sir John Harington , English courtier, writer and inventor of flush toilet
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