1597 in literature

1597 in literature

Events

*In February, Pembroke's Men contract with Francis Langley to play the next year at his new Swan Theatre. Their season goes disastrously wrong in July, when they stage the scandalous play "The Isle of Dogs", which provokes the authorities to close all of the London theatres for the remainder of the summer.
* William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham dies on March 5; his place as Lord Chamberlain is taken by George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon, the son of a previous Lord Chamberlain. Lord Hunsdon reverses Cobham's policy of hostility toward the actors of English Renaissance theatre, and returns to his father's policy of general tolerance and patronage.

New books

*Francis Bacon - "Essays"
*Johannes Vodnianus Campanus - "Turcicorum tyrannorum qui inde usque ab Otomanno rebus Turcicis praefuerunt, descriptio"
*Gabriel Harvey - "The Trimming of Thomas Nashe Gentleman"
*Thomas Morley - "Plain and Easy Introduction to Practical Music"
*Dinko Zlatarić - "Ljubav i smrt Pirama i Tizbe, iz veće tuđijeh jezika u hrvacki složene (Love and Death of Pyramus and Thisbe, Translated into Croatian from Several Foreign Languages)"

New drama

*George Chapman - "An Humorous Day's Mirth"
*Richard Hathwaye - "King Arthur"
*John Lyly - "The Woman in the Moon" published
*John Marston - "Histriomastix"
*Anthony Munday & Michael Drayton -"Mother Redcap"
*Thomas Nashe & Ben Jonson - "The Isle of Dogs"
*William Shakespeare - "Richard II," "Richard III," and "Romeo and Juliet" (the "bad quarto") published

Poetry

*Michael Drayton - "Englands Heroicall Epistles"

Births

*February 24 - Vincent Voiture, French poet (died 1648)
*December 23 - Martin Opitz von Boberfeld, German poet (died 1639)
*"date unknown"
**Wang Wei, Chinese poet (died 1647)

Deaths

*March 11 - Henry Drummond, Scottish evangelical writer and lecturer
*"date unknown"
**James Burbage, English actor
**William Hunnis, English poet
**Franciscus Patricius, Italian philosopher and scientist (born 1529)


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