This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1601.
Events
January 1 – The "Paul's Boys", a children's drama group, perform at the English royal court.[1]
January 6 – The
Children of the Chapel give their first theatrical performance at the English court since 1584: Liberality and Prodigality, by an unknown dramatist.[2]
February 7 – The
Lord Chamberlain's Men stage a performance of
Shakespeare's Richard II at the
Globe Theatre in London. The performance is specially commissioned (at a 40-shilling bonus) by the plotters in the
Earl of Essex's rebellion of the following day.[3] The plotters hope that the play, depicting the overthrow of a reigning monarch, will influence the public mood in their favour. The plot fails.
May 31 – The authorities demand proof of the insanity of
Tommaso Campanella, imprisoned in Italy for revolutionary plotting; Campanella is eventually judged insane and spared the death penalty and sentenced to life imprisonment, in the course of which he writes The City of the Sun.[5]
Philemon Holland publishes his translation of the
Natural History of
Pliny the Elder. When he composes Othello in the next year or so, Shakespeare exploits the book for references, including the "Anthropophagi" and the "Pontic Sea."
^Edwards, Phillip, ed. (1985). Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. New Cambridge Shakespeare. Cambridge University Press. p. 8.
ISBN0-521-29366-9. Any dating of Hamlet must be tentative. Scholars date its writing as between 1599 and 1601.
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1601.
Events
January 1 – The "Paul's Boys", a children's drama group, perform at the English royal court.[1]
January 6 – The
Children of the Chapel give their first theatrical performance at the English court since 1584: Liberality and Prodigality, by an unknown dramatist.[2]
February 7 – The
Lord Chamberlain's Men stage a performance of
Shakespeare's Richard II at the
Globe Theatre in London. The performance is specially commissioned (at a 40-shilling bonus) by the plotters in the
Earl of Essex's rebellion of the following day.[3] The plotters hope that the play, depicting the overthrow of a reigning monarch, will influence the public mood in their favour. The plot fails.
May 31 – The authorities demand proof of the insanity of
Tommaso Campanella, imprisoned in Italy for revolutionary plotting; Campanella is eventually judged insane and spared the death penalty and sentenced to life imprisonment, in the course of which he writes The City of the Sun.[5]
Philemon Holland publishes his translation of the
Natural History of
Pliny the Elder. When he composes Othello in the next year or so, Shakespeare exploits the book for references, including the "Anthropophagi" and the "Pontic Sea."
^Edwards, Phillip, ed. (1985). Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. New Cambridge Shakespeare. Cambridge University Press. p. 8.
ISBN0-521-29366-9. Any dating of Hamlet must be tentative. Scholars date its writing as between 1599 and 1601.