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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.

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)

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