1601 in literature

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See also: 1600 in literature, other events of 1601, 1602 in literature, list of years in literature.

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

[edit] Events

• Lancelot Andrewes becomes Dean of Westminster.
• Thomas Overbury meets Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, and they become firm friends.
• Tirso de Molina enters the monastery of San Antolín at Guadalajara, Spain.

[edit] New books

• Achilles Tatius - The Adventures of Leucippe and Cleitophon (first printed edition of original Greek text)

[edit] New drama

• Thomas Dekker - Satiromastix
• Ben Jonson - Cynthia's Revels
• William Shakespeare - Twelfth Night, or What You Will

[edit] Births

• January 8 - Baltasar Gracián y Morales, prose author
• August 22 - Georges de Scudéry, novelist, dramatist and poet
• probable - François Tristan l'Hermite, dramatist

[edit] Deaths

• April 10 - Mark Alexander Boyd, poet
• August 19 - William Lambarde, legal writer
• date unknown
  • Scipione Ammirato, historian
  • Claude Fauchet, historian
  • John Hooker, English constitutionalist
  • Gian Vincenzo Pinelli, humanist and book collector
• probable
  • Thomas North, translator
  • John Shakespeare, father of William Shakespeare