1603 in literature

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The year 1603 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

• Ben Jonson and Thomas Dekker collaborate on a pageant to welcome the new king James I of England.
• Thomas Middleton gets married.
• Chronicler Richard Baker, is knighted by James I.
• Henry Chettle receives his last payment from Philip Henslowe.
• Foundation of the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome.
• Jacobus Arminius becomes professor of theology at Leiden.
• By one account, As You Like It is performed at Wilton House on December 2.
• Johannes Huser of Waldkirch publishes collected edition of Paracelsus's works.

New books

• Johann Bayer - Uranometria
• John Davies of Hereford - Microcosmos
• Thomas Dekker - The Wonderful Year
• Thomas Dekker & Thomas Middleton - News from Gravesend
• John Florio - translation into English of Michel de Montaigne's Essais

New drama

• Anonymous - Philotus
• Thomas Heywood - A Woman Killed with Kindness
• Ben Jonson - Sejanus: His Fall, and The Entertainment at Althorp
• William Shakespeare - Hamlet published (first quarto, the "bad quarto")

Poetry

Main article: 1603 in poetry

• Juan de la Cueva - La Conquista de Betica

Births

• January 21 - Shackerley Marmion, dramatist (died 1639)
• July 12 - Edward Benlowes, poet (died 1676)
• August 16 - Adam Olearius, scholar and librarian (died 1671)
• December 21 - Roger Williams, theologian (died 1684)
• date unknown
  • Gabriel Bocángel, dramatist (died 1658)
  • Johannes Cocceius, theologian (died 1669)
  • Valentin Conrart, memoirist (died 1675)
  • Gysbert Japiks, Frisian poet (died 1666)
  • George Abbot, "the Puritan" (died 1648)

Deaths

• February 18 - Claude Catherine de Clermont, salon hostess (born 1543)
• February 19 - Juan Azor, philosopher (born 1535)
• April 25 - Gregory of Valencia, Humanist philosopher (born 1550)
• June 27 - Jan Dymitr Solikowski, political and historical writer (born 1539)
• November 30 - William Gilbert, natural philosopher (born 1544)
• date unknown
  • Pierre Charron, philosopher (born 1541)
  • Peter Short, printer associated with the works of Shakespeare