1608 in literature

1608 in literature

The year 1608 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

*Henry Ainsworth publishes a response to Richard Bernard's "The Separatist Schisme".
*Thomas Overbury is knighted.
*Juan Ruiz de Alarcón returns to Mexico from Spain, to take up an academic post.
*Arthur Johnston goes to Italy to study at Padua.
*The Morgan Bible is given by Cardinal Bernard Maciejowski, Bishop of Cracow, to Abbas I (Shah of Persia).
*Thomas Coryat begins his walking tour of Europe.
*On March 31, "Hamlet" is performed aboard the East India Company ship "Red Dragon", under the command of Capt. William Keeling.

New books

*George Abbot - "A Brief Description of the Whole World"
*Robert Armin - "A Nest of Ninnies"
*Thomas Dekker - "The Dead Term"
*Thomas Dekker - "The Bellman of London"
*Mathurin Régnier - "Les Premieres d'Euvres ou Satyres de Regnier"
*"P. F." - "The History of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Doctor John Faustus"

New drama

*Anonymous - "The Merry Devil of Edmonton;" has been attributed to William Shakespeare, Michael Drayton, and others
*Anonymous - "A Yorkshire Tragedy;" attributed to Thomas Middleton, or George Wilkins
*Lording Barry - "Ram Alley" published
*George Chapman - "The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron"
*John Day - "Humour Out of Breath" and "Law Tricks" published
*Thomas Heywood - "The Rape of Lucrece" published
*Ben Jonson - "The Masque of Beauty" performed, and published with "The Masque of Blackness;" "The Hue and Cry After Cupid" performed, and (likely) published
*Henry Machin & Gervase Markham - "The Dumb Knight"
*Thomas Middleton - "The Family of Love," "A Mad World, My Masters," and "A Trick to Catch the Old One" published
*John Sansbury - "Periander"
*William Shakespeare - "King Lear" published

Births

*February 6 - António Vieira, Portuguese Jesuit orator and writer (died 1697)
*December 9 - John Milton, poet and author (died 1674)
*"date unknown" - Daniello Bartoli, Jesuit writer (died 1685)
*"date unknown" - Thomas Fuller, churchman and historian (died 1661)
*"date unknown" - Jin Shengtan, Chinese editor and critic (died 1661)

Deaths

*February 16 - Nicolas Rapin, translator, poet and satirist (born 1535)
*February 26
**Thomas Craig, poet (born c1538)
**John Still, bishop, formerly credited with authorship of "Gammer Gurton's Needle" (born c1543)
*April 19 - Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, statesman and poet (born 1536)
*June 19 - Alberico Gentili, legal writer (born 1552)
*October 19
**Martin Delrio, theologian (born 1551)
**Geoffrey Fenton, writer and politician (born c1539)
*"date unknown" - Mary Arden, mother of Shakespeare (born c1540)
*"date unknown" - George Bannatyne, collector of Scottish poems (born 1545)
*"date unknown" - Pablo de Céspedes, poet and artist (born 1538)
*"date unknown" - Nicolas de Montreux, novelist, poet and dramatist (born c1561)
*"date unknown" - Laurence Tomson, Calvinist theologian (born 1539)
*"date unknown" - Jean Vauquelin de la Fresnaye, poet (born 1536)


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