1607 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1607.

## Events

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* January 22 – Shortly before his death, bookseller Cuthbert Burby transfers the rights to print the text of The Taming of the Shrew to Nicholas Ling.[1]
* February 2 – The King's Men perform Barnes's The Devil's Charter at the English Court.
* June 5 – Physician John Hall marries Susanna, daughter of William Shakespeare.[2]
* September 5 – Hamlet is performed aboard the East India Company ship Red Dragon, under the command of Captain William Keeling, anchored off the coast of Sierra Leone, the first known performance of a Shakespeare play outside England in English, and the first by amateurs.
* September 30 – Richard II is performed aboard the Dragon.[3]
* unknown dates
* First performance of the first wholly parodic play in English, Francis Beaumont's The Knight of the Burning Pestle, unsuccessfully, probably by child actors at the Blackfriars Theatre in London.[4]
* The King's Revels Children are active as a playing company in London: their repertoire includes Edward Sharpham's Cupid's Whirligig and Thomas Middleton's The Family of Love.

## New books

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### Prose

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* William Alabaster – Apparatus in Revelationem Jesu Christi
* John Cowell – The Interpreter (suppressed by the English House of Commons for excessive royalism)
* Michael Drayton – The Legend of Great Cromwell[5]
* Antoine Loysel – Institutes coutumières
* César Oudin – Thrésor des deux langues françoise et espagnole
* Lawrence Twine – The Pattern of Painful Adventures, second edition; a source for Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre
* Honoré d'Urfé – L'Astrée (part 1)

### Drama

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* William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling – The Monarchic Tragedies (second edition adding The Alexandrean and Julius Caesar to closet dramas Croesus and Darius
* Anonymous – Claudius Tiberius Nero
* Barnabe Barnes – The Devil's Charter
* Francis Beaumont – The Knight of the Burning Pestle
* Beaumont and Fletcher – The Woman Hater (published, earliest of their collaborations to appear in print)
* Thomas Campion – Lord Hay's Masque
* George Chapman – Bussy D'Ambois (published)
* John Day, William Rowley, and George Wilkins – The Travels of the Three English Brothers
* Thomas Dekker – The Whore of Babylon
* Thomas Dekker and John Webster – Westward Ho and Northward Ho published
* Dekker & Webster, with Henry Chettle (?), Thomas Heywood (?), and Wentworth Smith (?) – Sir Thomas Wyatt (published)
* Thomas Heywood – The Fair Maid of the Exchange (published)
* Ben Jonson – Volpone (published)
* John Marston – What You Will (published)
* Thomas Middleton
* Michaelmas Term (performed)
* The Phoenix (published)
* The Puritan (published as "written by W.S.")
* The Revenger's Tragedy (published)
* Edward Sharpham – Cupid's Whirligig
* Thomas Tomkis – Lingua (published)
* George Wilkins – The Miseries of Enforced Marriage (published)

### Poetry

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* Thomas Dekker – The Seven Deadly Sins of London

## Births

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* March 8 – Johann von Rist, German poet (died 1667)
* July 10 – Philippe Labbe, French Jesuit writer (died 1667)
* October 4 – Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, Spanish dramatist (died c. 1660)
* November 1 – Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet and translator (died 1658)
* November 5 – Anna Maria van Schurman, Dutch poet (died 1678)
* November 15 – Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (died 1701)[6]
* Unknown dates
* Alaol, Bengali poet (died 1673)
* Antoine Gombaud, French essayist (died 1684)
* Filadelfo Mugnos, Italian historian (died 1675)
* Francisco Núñez de Pineda y Bascuñán, Chilean writer and soldier (died 1682)

## Deaths

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* January 6 – Guidobaldo del Monte, Italian philosopher (born 1545)
* May – Sir Edward Dyer, English poet (born 1543)
* June – Thomas Newton, English physician, clergyman, poet, author and translator (born c. 1542)
* June 19 – Johannes Bertelius, historian of Luxembourg (born 1544)[7]
* June 30 – Caesar Baronius, Italian ecclesiastical historian (born 1538)
* July 6 – Achille Gagliardi, Italian theologian (born 1537)
* July 7 – Penelope Rich, Lady Rich, English noblewoman, inspiration for Sir Philip Sidney's "Stella" (born 1563)
* October 31 – Wawrzyniec Grzymała Goślicki, Polish philosopher (born c. 1540)
* Unknown dates
* Cuthbert Burby, English publisher and bookseller
* Dinko Ranjina, Croatian poet (born 1536)
* Probable year of death – Henry Chettle, English dramatist (born c. 1564)

## References

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1. ^ Dana E. Aspinall (2002). The Taming of the Shrew: Critical Essays. Psychology Press. p. 5\. ISBN 978-0-8153-3515-3.
2. ^ "Susanna Hall". Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. Retrieved April 18, 2018.
3. ^ Shakespeare, William (2002). King Richard II: Third Series. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 122\. ISBN 9781903436332.
4. ^ Zachary Lesser (November 18, 2004). Renaissance Drama and the Politics of Publication: Readings in the English Book Trade. Cambridge University Press. pp. 52–. ISBN 978-0-521-84252-5.
5. ^ McLaughlin, Becky (2017). Putting Theory into Practice in the Contemporary Classroom: Theory Lessons. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 207\. ISBN 9781443868471.
6. ^ Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History Volume 13 Western Europe (1700-1800). BRILL. September 16, 2019. p. 482\. ISBN 978-90-04-40283-6.
7. ^ Halkett, Samuel; Hjaltalín, Jón Andréson; Jamieson, Thomas Hill (1867). A - Byzantium. p. 445.