1607 in literature

Overview of the events of 1607 in literature

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

Events

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.

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)

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)

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)

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)

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