1607 in literature

1607 in literature

The year 1607 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

*February 2 - The King's Men perform Barnes's "The Devil's Charter" at Court.
*June 5 - John Hall marries Susanna, daughter of William Shakespeare.
*September 5 - "Hamlet" is performed aboard the East India Company ship "Red Dragon", under the command of Capt. William Keeling, anchored off the coast of Sierra Leone
*September 30 - "Richard II" is acted aboard the "Red Dragon".

New books

*William Alabaster - "Apparatus in Revelationem Jesu Christi"
*John Cowell - "The Interpreter" (suppressed by the English House of Commons for excessive royalism)
*Thomas Dekker - "The Seven Deadly Sins of London"
*Michael Drayton - "The Legend of Great Cromwell"
*Edward Grimeston - "A General Inventory of the History of France"
*Lawrence Twine - "The Pattern of Painful Adventures", second edition; a source for Shakespeare's "Pericles, Prince of Tyre"
*Honoré d'Urfé - "Astrée" (part 1)

New drama

*William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling - "The Monarchic Tragedies", second edition; adds "The Alexandrean" and "Julius Caesar" to his previously-published closet dramas "Croesus" and "Darius"
*Anonymous - "Claudius Tiberius Nero"
*Anonymous - "The Fair Maid of the Exchange" published
*Barnabe Barnes - "The Devil's Charter"
*Francis Beaumont - "The Knight of the Burning Pestle"
*Beaumont and Fletcher - "The Woman Hater" published; the earliest of their collaborations to appear in print
*Thomas Campion - "Lord Hay's Masque"
*George Chapman - "Bussy D'Ambois" published
*John Day, William Rowley, & George Wilkins - "The Travels of the Three English Brothers"
*Thomas Dekker - "The Whore of Babylon"
*Thomas Dekker and John Webster - "Westward Ho" and "Northward Ho" published
*Dekker & Webster, with Henry Chettle (?), Thomas Heywood (?), & Wentworth Smith (?) - "Sir Thomas Wyatt" published
*Thomas Heywood - "The Fair Maid of the Exchange" published
*Ben Jonson - "Volpone" published
*Thomas Middleton - "Michaelmas Term" performed; "The Phoenix" published
*Edward Sharpham -"Cupid's Whirligig"
*Thomas Tomkis - "Lingua" published
*Thomas Middleton - "The Revenger's Tragedy" published
*George Wilkins - "The Miseries of Enforced Marriage" published

Births

*March 8 - Johann von Rist, German poet (died 1667)
*July 10 - Philippe Labbe, Jesuit writer (died 1667)
*November 1 - Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet and translator (died 1658)
*November 5 - Anna Maria van Schurman, Dutch poet (died 1678)
*November 15 - Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (died 1701)
*"date unknown"
**Alaol, Bengali poet (died 1680)
**Antoine Gombaud, French essayist (died 1684)
**Filadelfo Mugnos, Italian historian (died 1675)
**Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, Spanish dramatist (died c. 1660)

Deaths

*January 6 - Guidobaldo del Monte, philosopher (born 1545)
*May - Sir Edward Dyer, poet (born 1543)
*June 30 - Caesar Baronius, ecclesiastical historian (born 1538)
*July 6 - Achille Gagliardi, Italian theologian (born 1537)
*"date unknown"
**Johannes Bertelius, historian of Luxembourg (born 1544)
**Cuthbert Burby, publisher and bookseller
**Dinko Ranjina, Croatian poet (born 1536)
*"probable" - Henry Chettle, dramatist (born c1564)


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