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Overview of the events of 1600 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1600.
Events
January 1 – The
Admiral's Men perform
Dekker 's
The Shoemaker's Holiday at the English Court.
[1]
January – Carpenter
Peter Street is contracted to build the
Fortune Playhouse just north of the
City of London by theatrical manager
Philip Henslowe and his stepson-in-law, the leading actor
Edward Alleyn , for the
Admiral's Men , who move there from
The Rose by the end of the year.
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".
[2]
c. April – Publication of
Ben Jonson 's 1599 play
Every Man out of His Humour ;
[3] it goes through three editions this year.
April 18 –
Hortensio Félix Paravicino joins the Trinitarian Order.
May –
Robert Shirley returns from Persia.
Whitsuntide – The last performances of the
Chester
miracle plays take place.
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. By September, Kempe is playing with
Worcester's Men at
The Rose (theatre) .
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.
September 8 –
John Marston 's
Jack Drum's Entertainment is entered in the Stationers' Register. It is being acted by the newly re-formed
Children of Paul's . The character of Brabant Senior represents
Ben Jonson , thus continuing London's
War of the Theatres . Jonson responds with
Cynthia's Revels , acted by the Children of the Chapel at the Blackfriars Theatre (and over Christmas at Court, but without success there).
October 18 –
Juan Ruiz de Alarcón begins his legal studies at the
University of Salamanca .
November 4 –
Tirso de Molina joins the
Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy .
[4]
By end – The Admiral's Men are playing at
Edward Alleyn and
Philip Henslowe 's new
Fortune Playhouse just north of the
City of London .
Biblioteca Riccardiana established in
Florence .
New books
Prose
Drama
Anonymous
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 year)
Lope de Vega – year of some 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 )
[6]
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
Births
Deaths
January 23 –
John Case , English commentator on Aristotle
[9]
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 )
[10]
June 25 –
David Chytraeus , German theologian and historian (born
1530 )
[11]
September 25 –
Antoine du Verdier , French politician and writer (born
1544 )
[12]
October 12 –
Luis de Molina , Spanish Jesuit writer (born
1535 )
[13]
November –
Robert Wilson , English dramatist (date of birth unknown)
November 2 –
Richard Hooker , English theologian (born
1554 )
[14]
November 23 or
24 –
Balthasar Russow , Estonian chronicler (born
1536 )
Unknown dates
References
^ Thomas Dekker (11 September 1999).
The Shoemaker's Holiday: Thomas Dekker . Manchester University Press. p. 82.
ISBN
978-0-7190-3099-4 .
^ Charlotte Endymion Porter (1886).
Shakespeariana: A Critical and Contemporary Review of Shakesperian Literature . L. Scott Publishing Company. p. 31.
^ Williams, Hywel (2005).
Cassell's Chronology of World History . London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp.
238–243 .
ISBN
0-304-35730-8 .
^ Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913).
"Gabriel Téllez" .
Catholic Encyclopedia . New York: Robert Appleton Company.
^ Lawrence, William J. (1927). Pre-Restoration Stage Studies. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. pp. 277–289.
^ Logan, Terence P.; Smith, Denzell S., eds. (1973). The Predecessors of Shakespeare: A Survey and Bibliography of Recent Studies in English Renaissance Drama . Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. p. 32.
^ Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1986).
Love is No Laughing Matter . Oxford University Press. p. 7.
ISBN
978-0-85668-365-7 .
^ Hugh James Rose (1857).
A New General Biographical Dictionary . T. Fellowes. p. 166.
^
"Case, John (d.1600)" .
Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
^ Jan Hendrik Jongkees (1960).
Fulvio Orsini's Imagines and the Portrait of Aristotle . J. B. Wolters. p. 11.
^ Virginia Brown; James Hankins; Robert A. Kaster (May 2003).
Catalogus Translationum Et Commentariorum: Medieval and Renaissance Latin Translations and Commentaries : Annotated Lists and Guides . CUA Press. p. 168.
ISBN
978-0-8132-1300-2 .
^ Alexander Chalmers (1816).
The General Biographical Dictionary Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons . J. Nichols. p. 292.
^ Diego Alonso-Lasheras SJ (11 April 2011).
Luis de Molina's De Iustitia et Iure: Justice as Virtue in an Economic Context . BRILL. p. 14.
ISBN
978-90-04-20966-4 .
^ W. J. Torrance Kirby (1990).
Richard Hooker's Doctrine of the Royal Supremacy . BRILL. p. 31.
ISBN
90-04-08851-2 .