1611 in literature
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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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