17th century in literature

Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare
The Dutch Courtesan (play) - John Marston
The Tragedy of Philotas (play) - Samuel Daniel
The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare
Don Quixote (El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha), Part I - Miguel de Cervantes
Epistle concerning the Excellencies of the English Tongue - Richard Carew

1606

Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare

1607

A Woman Killed with Kindness (play) - Thomas Heywood
Bussy D'Ambois (play) - George Chapman
Michaelmas Terme (play) - Thomas Middleton
The Knight of the Burning Pestle (play) - Francis Beaumont
The Famous History of Sir Thomas Wyat (play) - Thomas Dekker and John Webster
The Legend of Great Cromwell - Michael Drayton
Pericles, Prince of Tyre by William Shakespeare
The Revenger's Tragedy by Cyril Tourneur or Thomas Middleton

1608

Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
A Nest of Ninnies - Robert Armin
Humour out of Breathe (play) - John Day
The Belman of London (play) - Thomas Dekker
The Merry Devil of Edmonton (play) - anonymous; has been attributed to William Shakespeare, Michael Drayton and others.

1609

The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
Fourre Birds of Noahs Arke - Thomas Dekker
The Gul's Hornebooke - Thomas Dekker

1610

Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
The Faithful Shepherdess (play) - John Fletcher

A Woman's a Weathercock (1612), Amends for Ladies (1618), and (with Massinger) The Fatal Dowry (1632).

1611

The Authorized Version (King James version) of the Bible
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Catiline his Conspiracy (play) - Ben Jonson
The Roaring Girle (play) - Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton

1612

A Woman is a Weather-Cocke - Nathaniel Field

1613

Henry VIII by William Shakespeare
Tears on the Death of Moeliades - William Drummond of Hawthornden
The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois - George Chapman
Purchas, his Pilgrimage; or, Relations of the World and the Religions observed in all Ages - Samuel Purchas

1614

Bartholomew Fair (play) - Ben Jonson
Fama fraternitatis Roseae Crucis oder Die Bruderschaft des Ordens der Rosenkreuzer - Johannes Valentinus Andreae

1615

Don Quixote, Part II - Miguel de Cervantes
Confessio oder Bekenntnis der Societät und Bruderschaft Rosenkreuz - Johannes Valentinus Andreae

1616

Ben Jonson's Works
The Whole Works of Homer - George Chapman
Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz Anno 1459 - Johannes Valentinus Andreae
The Bloody Brother (?1616-30?) - John Fletcher, Ben Jonson, Philip Massinger, George Chapman (The drinking song (http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/fletcher/drinkingsong.htm))

1617

A Faire Quarrell (play) - Thomas Middleton and William Rowley

1618

History of Tythes - John Selden
Amends for Ladies (play) - Nathaniel Field

1619

A King and No King (play) - Beaumont and Fletcher
The Maid's Tragedy (play) - Beaumont and Fletcher
The Shoemaker's Holiday - Thomas Deloney
The Custome of the Countrey - John Fletcher and Philip Massinger
Reipublicae Christianopolitanae descriptio - Johannes Valentinus Andreae

1620

Philaster - Beaumont and Fletcher

1621

1622

The Heir (play) - Thomas May
The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh - Francis Bacon
The French Disease - Richard Brome
The Beggar's Bush - John Fletcher
El tejedor de Segovia - Alercon
The Changeling - Thomas Middleton and William Rowley text (http://www.tech.org/~cleary/change.html)

1623

A Fault in Friendship - Richard Brome
Flowers of Sion - William Drummond of Hawthornden
The Duchess of Malfi - John Webster
First Folio - William Shakespeare

1624

The City-Night-Cap (comedy) - Robert Davenport
Nero Caesar, or Monarchie Depraved - Edmund Bolton
The Sun's Darling - John Ford

1625

A Game at Chess - Thomas Middleton
Complete Essays - Francis Bacon
Les Bergeries - Racan

1627

The Bataile of Agincourt - Michael Drayton
First Steps up Parnassus - Michael Drayton

1628

Microcosmographie - John Earle

1629

The Roman Actor (play) - Philip Massinger
The Saint's Cordial - Richard Sibbes
The Tragedy of Albovine (play) - William D'Avenant

1630

The Conceited Pedlar - Thomas Randolph

1631

The Fair Maid of the West (play) - Thomas Heywood

1632

L'Allegro - John Milton
The Fatal Dowry (play) - Nathaniel Field and Philip Massinger
The City Madam - Philip Massinger
The Muses’ Looking-Glass by Thomas Randolph

1633

A New Way to Pay Old Debts (play) - Philip Massinger
Love's Sacrifice (play) - John Ford
The Gamester (play) - James Shirley
The Temple (poetry) - George Herbert

1634

Tottenham Court (play) - Thomas Nabbes

1636

The Royal Slave (play) - William Cartwright

1637

The Pleasant Historie of Albino and Bellama - Nathaniel Whiting

1638

Alcione (play) - Pierre du Ryer

1639

Argalus and Parthenia (play) - Henry Glapthorne
The City Match - Jasper Mayne

1640

Dodona's Grove - James Howell
The Bay Psalm Book, the first book printed in North America
Joseph's partly-coloured Coat - Thomas Fuller

1641

Episcopacy by Divine Right - Joseph Hall
The Cardinall (play) - James Shirley (first extant edition, 1652)
A Joviall Crew (play) - Richard Brome (first extant edition, 1652)
Fragmenta Regalia, or Observations on the late Queen Elizabeth, her Times and Favourites - Sir Robert Naunton (posthumous)

1642

September: Playhouses closed in England by government order.
Religio Medici Sir Thomas Browne
Saul (play) by Pierre du Ryer

1644

Areopagitica by John Milton

1646

Andronicus or the Unfortunate Politician - Thomas Fuller
Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Vulgar Errors - Sir Thomas Browne

1647

Philosophical Poems - Henry More

1648

The Amorous War - Jasper Mayne
Hesperides by Robert Herrick (poet)

1649

Eikon Basilike - John Gauden

1650

Silex scintillans - Henry Vaughan

1651

Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes
Reliquiae Wottonianiae - Sir Henry Wotton (posthumous)
Jeune Alcidiane - Marin le Roy de Gomberville

1652

Brief Character of the Low Countries - Owen Feltham
Theophilia or Love's Sacrifice (poetry) - Edward Benlowes
The Cardinall (play) - James Shirley

1653

A History of New England - Edward Johnson
The Compleat Angler - Izaak Walton
Poems and Fancies - Margaret Cavendish

1654

Lucifer (play) - Joost van den Vondel
Parlhenissa, a novel - Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery

1655

The Worlds Olio - Margaret Cavendish

1656

Nature's Pictures - Margaret Cavendish
Oceana by James Harrington

1657

1658

Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial - Sir Thomas Browne
The Garden of Cyrus -Sir Thomas Browne

1659

Lucasta - Richard Lovelace (posthumous)
Pharonnida - William Chamberlayne

1661

Tyrannus, or The Mode - John Evelyn

1662

A new edition of the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England (this edition remains the officially authorised book to the present day).

1664

Love's Kingdom, with a Discourse of the English Stage - Richard Flecknoe

1665

A Moral Essay preferring Solitude to Public Employment - Sir George Mackenzie
Memoires of François Bassompierre (posthumous)

1666

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners by John Bunyan

1667

Paradise Lost by John Milton
Annus Mirabilis, the Year of Wonders 1666 - John Dryden
Secret Love (play) - John Dryden

1668

Le Tartuffe - Molière
Cyprianus Anglicanus - Peter Heylin
Essay of Dramatick Poesie - John Dryden
Observations upon Experimental Philosophy - Margaret Cavendish

1670

The Forced Marriage - Aphra Behn
The Conquest of Granada - John Dryden

1671

Samson Agonistes - John Milton
The Rehearsal (play) - George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham performed

1672

Marriage a la Mode by John Dryden
The Rehearsal (play) by George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham published

1674

Navigation and Commerce - John Evelyn
The Tragedy of Nero, Emperour of Rome (play) - Nathaniel Lee

1675

The Country Wife by William Wycherley
Gerania; a New Discovery of a Little Sort of People, anciently discoursed of, called Pygmies by Joshua Barnes

1676

The Man of Mode (play) - George Etherege
English-Adventures by a Person of Honor - Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery

1677

Phèdre - Jean Racine
Treatise of the Art of War - Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery

1678

All for Love - John Dryden
The True Intellectual System of the Universe - Ralph Cudworth
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
Threnodia Carolina - Sir Thomas Herbert

1679

Anima Mundi - Charles Blount

1680

The Life and Death of Mr Badman - John Bunyan

1681

Miscellaneous Poems by Andrew Marvell (posthumous)
Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden

1687

The Hind and the Panther - John Dryden
The Hind and the Panther Transversed to the Story of the Country and the City Mouse - Matthew Prior
Bellamira, or The Mistress (play) - Sir Charles Sedley

1689