1607 in literature
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The year 1607 in literature involved some significant events.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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)
