1623 in literature

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The year 1623 in literature involved some significant events.

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Procopius's long-lost Secret History is rediscovered in the Vatican Library.
François le Métel de Boisrobert comes under the patronage of Cardinal Richelieu.
The King's Men perform Twelfth Night at Court on Candlemas, February 2.
On July 20, Henry Herbert (Sir Henry as of August) becomes the deputy of Sir John Ashley, Master of the Revels, and takes over the office's duties. From 1623 until the theatres close in 1642, Herbert effectively controls professional drama in England.
John Hacket's Latin comedy Loiola is staged at Trinity College, Cambridge on February 28, and is repeated on March 12 for King James on his third visit to the University. The play mocks both Catholics, in the person of Ignatius Loyola, and Calvinists, who are represented by Martinus, a canting elder of Amsterdam.
The First Folio edition of Shakespeare's works is published in December.

Francis Bacon - De Augmentis Scientiarum
Tommaso Campanella - Civitas Solis ("The City of the Sun")
William Drummond of Hawthornden - Flowers of Sion
James Mabbe - Guzmán de Alfarache, translated from the Spanish-language original of Mateo Alemán
Giambattista Marini - Adone
Antonio de Leon Pinelo - Discurso de la importancia, de la forma, y de la disposicion de la colleccion de las leyes de Indias
George Wither - Hymnes and Songs of the Church

Anonymous (Robert Ward?) - Fucus Histriomastix
Richard Brome - A Fault in Friendship (lost), his earliest known play
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
- Amor, honor y poder
- La selva confusa
- Los Macabeos
Thomas Dekker (& John Day?) - The Wonder of a Kingdom
Thomas Dekker, John Ford, & William Rowley (?) - The Spanish Gypsy
Thomas Drue - The Duchess of Suffolk
John Fletcher and Philip Massinger - The Lovers' Progress
John Fletcher and William Rowley - The Maid in the Mill
John Hacket - Loiola
Ben Jonson - Time Vindicated to Himself and to His Honours (masque)
Philip Massinger - The Bondman performed, The Duke of Milan published
Robert Ward (?) - Fucus Histriomastix
John Webster - The Duchess of Malfi and The Devil's Law Case published

June 19 - Blaise Pascal, philosopher (died 1662)
October 17 - Francis Turretin, theologian (died 1687)
date unknown - Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, biographer, poet and philosopher (died 1673)
date unknown - Henri Sauval, historian (died 1676)

January 15 - Paolo Sarpi, church historian (born 1552)
August 6 - Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare), widow of William Shakespeare (born 1556)
November 9 - William Camden, historian (born 1551)
November 11 - Philippe de Mornay, Protestant writer (born 1549)
date unknown - John Cameron, theologian (born c1579)
date unknown - Philipp Clüver, historian (born 1580)
date unknown - Tulsidas, Hindu philosopher and poet (born 1532)