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1601 in literature
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{{short description|Overview of the events of 1601 in literature}}{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2012}}{{Year nav topic5|1601|literature}}{{Use British English|date=July 2020}} This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1601.- the content below is remote from Wikipedia
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Events
- January 1 â The "Paul's Boys", a children's drama group, perform at the English royal court.BOOK, Frederick Gard Fleay, A Chronicle History of the London Stage, 1559-1642,weblink 1890, B. Franklin, 124,
- January 6 â The Children of the Chapel give their first theatrical performance at the English court since 1584: Liberality and Prodigality, by an unknown dramatist.BOOK, Lucy Munro, Children of the Queen's Revels: A Jacobean Theatre Repertory,weblink 3 November 2005, Cambridge University Press, 978-1-139-44605-1, 175,
- January 21 â Tirso de Molina enters the monastery of San AntolÃn at Guadalajara, Spain.
- February 7 â 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.BOOK, Louis Montrose, The Purpose of Playing: Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of the Elizabethan Theatre,weblink June 1996, University of Chicago Press, 978-0-226-53483-1, 67, The plotters hope that the play, depicting the overthrow of a reigning monarch, will influence the public mood in their favour. The plot fails.
- February 17 â Actor Augustine Phillips, a member of the Lord Chamberlain's Men, is deposed by the Privy Council of England.
- Spring â Probable latest date for first performance of Shakespeare's Hamlet.BOOK, Edwards, Phillip, 1985, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, New Cambridge Shakespeare, Cambridge University Press, 0-521-29366-9, 8, Any dating of Hamlet must be tentative., Scholars date its writing as between 1599 and 1601. The play is presented by the Lord Chamberlain's Men at the Globe Theatre in London with Richard Burbage playing Prince Hamlet and (according to theatrical tradition) the dramatist playing the Ghost.
- May 31 â 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.BOOK, Tommaso Campanella, Selected Philosophical Poems of Tommaso Campanella: A Bilingual Edition,weblink 30 March 2011, University of Chicago Press, 978-0-226-09205-8, 7,
- June (approximate) â Ben Jonson's The Poetaster is performed on stage for the first time.BOOK, Cyrus Hoy, Fredson Bowers, Thomas Dekker, Introductions, Notes and Commentaries to Texts in 'The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker',weblink 30 October 1980, Cambridge University Press, 978-0-521-21786-6, 181,
- July â Lancelot Andrewes becomes Dean of Westminster.
- unknown dates
- Thomas Overbury meets Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, and they become firm friends.BOOK, Jo Eldridge Carney, Renaissance and Reformation, 1500-1620: A Biographical Dictionary,weblink 2001, Greenwood Publishing Group, 978-0-313-30574-0, 271,
- 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."
New books
Prose
- Nicolas Barnaud â De Occulta philosophia
- Carolus Clusius â Rariarum plantarum historia
- Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas â Historia general de los hechos de los Castellanos, volume 1
- Nicholas Hill â Philosophia epicurea
- Philemon Holland â The Historie of the World, a translation of Pliny's Natural History
- Thomas Middleton â The Penniless Parliament of Threadbare Poets
- Mavro Orbin â The Realm of the Slavs
- Achilles Tatius â The Adventures of Leucippe and Cleitophon (first printed edition of original Greek text, published Heidelberg)
- Brás Viegas â Commentarii exegetici in Apocalypsim
Drama
- Anonymous
- The Return from Parnassus
- (Sebastian Westcote?) â The Contention Between Liberality and Prodigality
- Thomas Dekker
- Ben Jonson
- The Poetaster performed
- Cynthia's Revels published
- John Lyly â Love's Metamorphosis published
- John Marston â What You Will
- Anthony Munday â The Downfall and The Death of Robert Earl of Huntington published together
- William Percy
- Arabia sitiens, or, A Dreame of a Drye Yeare: a Tragaecomodye also known as Mahomet and His Heaven
- Chaunge is no Robberye or The Bearing down of the Inne: A Comaedye
- William Shakespeare
- Twelfth Night, or What You Will
- Hamlet possible first performance
- Robert Yarington â Two Lamentable Tragedies published
Poetry
- Robert Chester â Love's Martyr. The volume also contains fourteen poems by other hands, including:
- Gervase Markham â Mary Magdalene's Tears
- John Weever â The Mirror of Martyrs, or The Life and Death of Sir John Oldcastle
- Bento Teixeira â Prosopopeia
Births
- January 8 â Baltasar Gracián, Spanish Jesuit writer (died 1658)
- March 7 â Johann Michael Moscherosch, German satirist (died 1669)
- June 5 â John Trapp, English Biblical commentator (died 1669)
- July 17 â Emmanuel Maignan, French theologian (died 1676)
- August 22 â Georges de Scudéry, French novelist, dramatist and poet (died 1667)
- Probable year of birth â François Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist (died 1655)
Deaths
- January 11 â Scipione Ammirato, Italian historian (born 1531)
- March 13 â Henry Cuffe, English philosophical writer and politician (executed, born 1563)
- April 10 â Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet (born 1562)
- August 19 â William Lambarde, English antiquary and lawyer (born 1536)
- August 31 â Gian Vincenzo Pinelli, Italian humanist and book collector (born 1535)
- September 7 â John Shakespeare, English glover and father of William Shakespeare (born c. 1530)
- November 8 â John Hooker, English constitutionalist (born c. 1527)
- Approximate year of death – Thomas Nashe, English pamphleteer, poet and satirist (born 1567)
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