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The year 1624 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

• The King's Men perform The Winter's Tale at Whitehall Palace on January 18. In December the company gets into trouble for performing Massinger's The Spanish Viceroy without a license from the Master of the Revels.

New books

• Anonymous - The Origin of Idolatry (falsely attributed to Isaac Casaubon)
• Bernardo de Balbuena - El Bernardo
• Jean Louis Guez de Balzac - Lettres
• Philipp Clüver - Italia Antiqua (posthumous)
• Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury - De Veritate ("On Truth")
• Tirso de Molina - Cigarrales de Toledo
• Sir Henry Wotton - The Elements of Architecture (translation of Vitruvius)

New drama

• Anonymous - Nero published
• Robert Davenport - The City Nightcap
• Thomas Drue - The Duchess of Suffolk
• John Ford and Thomas Dekker - The Sun's Darling
• Ben Jonson - Neptune's Triumph for the Return of Albion
• Philip Massinger - The Parliament of Love
  • - The Bondman published
• Thomas Middleton - A Game at Chess

Births

• October 30 - Paul Pellisson, historian (died 1693)

Deaths

• February 13 - Stephen Gosson, satirist (born 1544)
• February 24 - Paul Laurentius, theologian (born 1544)