1600 in literature

The year 1600 in literature involved some significant literary events and new works.

Events

• January 1 – The Admiral's Men perform Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday at the English Court.
• March 6 – George Carey, Lord Hunsdon, the Lord Chamberlain of England, entertains the Flemish ambassador Ludowic Verreyken at Hunsdon House in the Blackfriars district of London. The entertainment includes a performance of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 by the Lord Chamberlain's Men.
• March 10 – Philip Henslowe lends William Haughton ten shillings "to release him out of the Clink".
• April 18 – Hortensio Félix Paravicino joins the Trinitarian Order.
• September – Richard Burbage leases the disused Blackfriars Theatre in London to Henry Evans and Nathaniel Giles for £40 per year. Evans and Giles use the space for the performances of the Children of the Chapel. Giles drafts Solomon Pavy, age ten, into his acting troupe.
• June 3 – Thomas Pavier becomes a publisher in the City of London, securing the rights to the plays Captain Thomas Stukeley, Sir John Oldcastle, Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy and Shakespeare's Henry V.
• By August – Robert Armin succeeds Will Kempe as clown of the Lord Chamberlain's Men at the Globe Theatre in London.
• September 8 – Jack Drum's Entertainment is entered in the Stationers' Register. The character of Brabant Senior represents Ben Jonson, thus continuing the War of the Theatres.
• November 4 – Tirso de Molina joins the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy.^[1]
• Juan Ruiz de Alarcón begins his studies at the University of Salamanca.
• Robert Shirley returns from Persia.
• The last performances of the Chester miracle plays take place.
• Biblioteca Riccardiana established in Florence.

New books

• Robert Armin (as "Clonnico de Curtanio Snuffe") – Fool Upon Fool
• Fabritio Caroso – Nobiltà de dame
• Lope de Vega – Romancero general
• "Moderata Fonte" (pseudonym) – The Worth of Women: Wherein is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men
• William Gilbert and Aaron Dowling – De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure
• Philemon Holland – The Romane Historie, a translation of Livy's Ab Urbe Condita
• Robert Jones – The First Book of Songs and Airs
• Samuel Rowland – The Letting of Humours Blood in the Head-Vein

New drama

• Anonymous
  • Look About You (published)^[2]
  • The Maid's Metamorphosis
  • Sir John Oldcastle (published)
  • The Weakest Goeth to the Wall (published)
  • The Wisdom of Doctor Dodypoll
• Henry Chettle & John Day – The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green, Part 1 (Parts 2 and 3, by Day and William Haughton, lost)
• Georgios Chortatzis – Erofili (approximate date)
• Lope de Vega – some dates approximate
  • La campana de Aragón
  • El castigo del discreto
  • La imperial de Otón
  • El postrer godo de España
  • La quinta de Florencia
  • Roma abrasada
  • La viuda valenciana ("The Widow from Valencia")
• Thomas Dekker – Old Fortunatus (published)
• Thomas Dekker and others (probable) – Lust's Dominion (approximate date)
• Thomas Dekker, John Marston, and William Haughton – The Spanish Moor's Tragedy (possibly same as Lust's Dominion)^[3]
• Thomas Heywood – Edward IV, Parts 1 and 2 published
• Thomas Heywood (attrib.) and others? – Edward IV (published)
• Ben Jonson – Cynthia's Revels
• John Marston – Jack Drum's Entertainment
• Thomas Nashe – Summer's Last Will and Testament (published)
• William Shakespeare – Henry IV, Part 2, The Merchant of Venice, Henry V, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Much Ado About Nothing (published)

Poetry

• Siddha Basavaraja – Bedagina Vachanagalu (anthology)
• England's Helicon (anthology) – including work by Edmund Spenser, Michael Drayton, Thomas Lodge, Philip Sidney and others
• Gervase Markham – The Tears of the Beloved
• Thomas Middleton – The Ghost of Lucrece

Births

• January 1 – Friedrich Spanheim, Flemish writer (died 1649)
• January 17 – Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish dramatist (died 1681)
• February 2 – Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (died 1653)
• September 19 – Hermann Busenbaum, German Jesuit theologian (died 1668)
• October 5 – Thomas Goodwin, English theologian (died 1680)
• November – John Ogilby, Scottish translator (died 1676)
• November 19 – Leo Aitzema, Dutch historian (died 1669)
• Unknown dates
  • Martin de Barcos, French Jansenist theologian (died 1678)
  • Bihari, Hindi poet (died 1663)
  • Marin le Roy de Gomberville, French poet and novelist (died 1674)
  • William Prynne, English polemicist (died 1669)
  • Adriaan Vlacq, Dutch publisher (died 1667)
  • Brian Walton, Bishop of Chester, English compiler of Polyglot Bible and bishop (died 1661)
• Probable year of birth
  • Piaras Feiritéar, Irish poet (hanged 1653)
  • Richard Flecknoe, English dramatist and poet (died 1678)
  • Samuel Hartlib, German-born English polymath (died 1662)

Deaths

• January 23 – John Case, English commentator on Aristotle
• February 15 – José de Acosta, Spanish naturalist (born 1539)
• April – Thomas Deloney, English novelist and balladist (born 1543)
• May 18 – Fulvio Orsini, Italian historian (born 1529)
• June 25 – David Chytraeus, German theologian and historian (born 1530)
• September 25 – Antoine du Verdier, French politician and writer (born 1544)
• October 12 – Luis Molina, Spanish Jesuit writer (born 1535)
• November – Robert Wilson, English dramatist (date of birth unknown)
• November 3 – Richard Hooker, English theologian (born 1554)
• November 23 or 24 – Balthasar Russow, Estonian chronicler (born 1536)
• Unknown dates
  • Bâkî (Mahmud Abdülbâkî), Ottoman Turkish poet (born 1526)
  • Mustafa Selaniki, Ottoman chronicler (date of birth unknown)

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