1622 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1622.

Events

January 6 – The Banqueting House, Whitehall, London, is opened with a performance of Ben Jonson's The Masque of Augurs designed by the building's architect, Inigo Jones.
March 12 – Teresa of Ávila, devotional writer, is canonized by Pope Gregory XV.
June – Lucas Holstenius arrives in Britain to gather material for his Geographi Minores.
November 19 – English writer and politician Sir Percy Herbert, created a baronet three days earlier, marries Elizabeth Craven, daughter of William Craven, a former Lord Mayor of London.
unknown dates
*Shakespeare's drama Othello is first published in the first quarto edition by Thomas Walkley in London, posthumously and nearly twenty years after the probable date of its first performance. New editions of four other Shakespeare plays in quarto are also issued this year, publishers being presumably aware of the imminent publication of the First Folio.
*James Mabbe publishes an English translation of Mateo Alemán's novel Guzmán de Alfarache.

Juan Ruiz de Alarcón – El tejedor de Segovia
Francis Bacon – The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh
Jacob Boehme – De Signatura Rerum
Elizabeth Knyvet Clinton, Countess of Lincoln – The Countess of Lincoln's Nursery
Marie de Gournay – Egalité des Hommes et des Femmes
Richard Hawkins – Voiage into the South Sea
Henry Peacham – ''The Compleat Gentleman''

January 15 – Molière, French dramatist
February 24 – Johannes Clauberg, German philosopher and theologian
March 28 – Ermes di Colorêt, Italian nobleman and writer
April 11 – Jan van Vliet, Dutch philologist
April 17 – Henry Vaughan, Welsh poet writing in English, and Thomas Vaughan, Welsh philosopher
September 22 – Jacques Savary, French commercial economist
December 24 – Francesc Fontanella, Catalan poet and dramatist
Unknown date – Gilbert Mabbot, English journalist and licenser of the press 1647–49