1600 in literature
The year 1600 in literature involved some significant events.
Events
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January 1 - TheAdmiral's Men perform Dekker's "The Shoemaker's Holiday " at Court.
*March 6 - George Carey, Lord Hunsdon, theLord Chamberlain of England, entertains the Flemish ambassador Ludowic Verreyken at Hunsdon House in the Blackfriars district ofLondon . The entertainment includes a performance ofShakespeare 's "Henry IV, Part 1 " by theLord Chamberlain's Men .
*September -Richard Burbage leases the disusedBlackfriars Theatre to Henry Evans and Nathaniel Giles for £40 per year. Evans and Giles use the space for the performances of theChildren of the Chapel . Giles drafts Solomon Pavy, age ten, into his acting troupe.
*September 8 - "Jack Drum's Entertainment " is entered in the Stationers' Register. The character of Brabant Senior representsBen Jonson , thus continuing theWar of the Theatres .
*Juan Ruiz de Alarcón begins his studies at theUniversity of Salamanca .
*Tirso de Molina joins the Order of Mercy.
*Hortensio Félix Paravicino joins the Trinitarian Order.
*Robert Shirley returns from Persia.
*Philip Henslowe lendsWilliam Haughton ten shillings "to release him out of the Clink".
*The last performances of theChester miracle plays occur in 1600.New books
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Fabritio Caroso - "Nobiltà de dame"
*"Moderata Fonte" (pseudonym) - "The Worth of Women: Wherein is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men"
*Robert Jones - "The First Book of Songs and Airs"
*Thomas Rowlands - "The Letting of Humour's Blood in the Head-Vein"New drama
*Anonymous
**"Look About You" published
**"The Maid's Metamorphosis "
**"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 andWilliam Haughton , lost)
*Thomas Dekker - "Old Fortunatus"
*Thomas Heywood - "Edward IV, Parts 1 and 2" published
*(Thomas Heywood (attr.) and others?) - "Edward IV" (published)
*Ben Jonson - "Cynthia's Revels "
*Thomas Dekker,John Marston , andWilliam Haughton - "The Spanish Moor's Tragedy"
*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 " publishedPoetry
*"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
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January 1 -Friedrich Spanheim , Calvinist writer (d.1649 )
*January 17 -Pedro Calderón de la Barca , dramatist (d.1681 )
*February 2 -Gabriel Naudé , librarian and scholar (d.1653 )
*October 5 -Thomas Goodwin , English theologian (d.1680 )
*November -John Ogilby , Scottish translator (d.1676 )
*November 19 -Leo Aitzema , Dutch historian (d.1669 )
*"date unknown"
**Martin de Barcos , French Jansenist theologian (d.1678 )
**Bihari, Hindi poet (d.1663 )
**Hermann Busenbaum , German Jesuit theologian (d.1668 )
**Marin le Roy de Gomberville , French poet and novelist (d.1674 )
**Peter Heylin , English ecclesiastical writer (d.1662 )
**William Prynne , polemicist (d.1669 )
**Adriaan Vlacq , publisher (d.1667 )
**Brian Walton, Bishop of Chester , compiler of "Polyglot Bible" (d.1661 )
*"probable"
**Piaras Feiritéar , poet
**Richard Flecknoe , dramatist and poetDeaths
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February 15 -José de Acosta , Spanish naturalist (b.1539 )
*April -Thomas Deloney , novelist and balladist (b.1543 )
*May 18 -Fulvio Orsini , Italian historian (b.1529 )
*June 25 -David Chytraeus , German theologian and historian (b.1530 )
*October 12 -Luis Molina , Spanish Jesuit writer (b.1535 )
*November 3 - Richard Hooker, theologian (b.1554 )
*"date unknown"
**Bâkî , Turkish poet (b.1526 )
**John Case , English commentator on Aristotle
**Balthasar Russow , Estonian chronicler
**Mustafa Selaniki , chronicler
*"probable"
**Robert Garnier , poet
**Thomas Nashe , satirist and pamphleteer
**Robert Wilson, dramatist
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