1600 in literature

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See also: 1599 in literature, other events of 1600, 1601 in literature, list of years in literature.

Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Poetry 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Juan Ruiz de Alarcón begins his studies at the University of Salamanca.
• Tirso de Molina joins the Order of Mercy.
• Hortensio Félix Paravicino joins the Trinitarian Order.
• Robert Shirley returns from Persia.
• Philip Henslowe lends William Haughton ten shillings "to release him out of the Clink".

[edit] New books

• Fabritio Caroso - Nobiltà de dame

[edit] New drama

• Thomas Dekker - Old Fortunatus
• Thomas Dekker, John Marston, and William Haughton - The Spanish Moor's Tragedy
• William Shakespeare - Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

[edit] Poetry

• England's Helicon (anthology) - including work by Edmund Spenser, Michael Drayton, Thomas Lodge, Philip Sidney and others
• Thomas Middleton - The Ghost of Lucrece

[edit] Births

• January 17 - Pedro Calderón de la Barca, dramatist
• February 2 - Gabriel Naudé, librarian and scholar
• November 19 - Leo Aitzema, historian
• date unknown
  • Marin le Roy de Gomberville, poet and novelist
  • Adriaan Vlacq, publisher
  • Brian Walton, compiler of "Polyglot Bible"
• probable
  • Piaras Feiritéar, poet
  • Richard Flecknoe, dramatist and poet

[edit] Deaths

• November 3 - Richard Hooker, theologian
• date unknown
  • Bâkî, poet
  • Thomas Deloney, novelist and balladist
  • Balthasar Russow, chronicler
  • Mustafa Selaniki, chronicler
• probable
  • Robert Garnier, poet
  • Thomas Nashe, satirist and pamphleteer
  • Robert Wilson, dramatist