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Overview of the events of 1600 in literature
Overview of the events of 1600 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1600.
Events 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.
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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]
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 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 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 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 Robert Armin (as "Clonnico de Curtanio Snuffe") – Fool Upon Fool William Camden (anonymously) – Reges, reginae, nobiles et alii in ecclesia collegiata B. Petri Westmonasterii sepulti (tombs and epitaph of Westminster Abbey )Fabritio Caroso – Nobiltà de dame Olivier de Serres – Théâtre d'agriculture Lope de Vega – Romancero general , Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure
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)Aonio Paleario (executed 1570) – Actio in pontifices romanos et eorum asseclas Samuel Rowlands – The Letting of Humour's Blood in the Head-vaine with A Mery Meetinge, or tis Mery when Knaves mete 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 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 Thomas Dekker and others (probable) – Lust's Dominion
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 publishedThomas Heywood (attrib.) and others? – Edward IV
Ben Jonson – Cynthia's Revels John Marston – Jack Drum's Entertainment
Thomas Nashe – Summer's Last Will and Testament William Shakespeare – Henry IV, Part 2 ,The Merchant of Venice ,Henry V ,A Midsummer Night's Dream ,Much Ado About Nothing 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
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