1625 In Literature

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EVENTS

John Milton enters Christ's College, Cambridge .

Sir Richard Baker 's Oxfordshire property is seized as a result of his debts.

NEW BOOKS

Francis Bacon - ''Complete Essays''

NEW DRAMA

Thomas Middleton - '' A Game At Chess ''

Racan - ''Les bergeries''

James Shirley - ''Love Tricks, or the School of Complement''

BIRTHS

August 20 - Thomas Corneille , dramatist

''date unknown'' - François Bernier , travel writer

DEATHS

June 1 - Honoré D'Urfé , novelist

August - John Fletcher , dramatist

September 6 - Thomas Dempster , historian

September 20 - Heinrich Meibom , poet and historian

''date unknown'' - Thomas Lodge , dramatist