1606 in literature
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The year 1606 in literature involved some significant events.
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[edit] Events
- May 27 - The English Parliament passes An Act to Restrain Abuses of Players, which tightens the censorship controls on public theatre performances, most notably on the question of profane oaths.
- December 26 - Shakespeare's King Lear is performed at Court before King James I on St. Stephen's Day.
- Sir Thomas Craig becomes church procurator.
- The theatre scandal of John Day's The Isle of Gulls sends several of the young actors from the Children of the Chapel to prison for short periods of time.
[edit] New books
- Thomas Dekker
- The Double PP
- News From Hell
- Salvator Fabris - Lo Schermo, overo Scienza D'Arme
- The King James Version of the Holy Bible
[edit] New drama
- Anonymous - The Return from Parnassus published
- Anonymous - Wily Beguiled published
- George Chapman (attributed to) - Sir Giles Goosecap published
- The Gentleman Usher published
- Monsieur D'Olive published
- John Day - The Isle of Gulls
- Ben Jonson - Volpone; Hymenaei
- John Marston - The Wonder of Women, or the Tragedy of Sophonisba; Parasitaster, or The Fawn published
- Thomas Middleton - The Puritan
- William Shakespeare - Macbeth (possible first performance); King Lear (first recorded performance)[1]
- Edward Sharpham - The Fleir
- Anonymous, probably Thomas Middleton - The Revenger's Tragedy
[edit] Births
- February 28 - Sir William Davenant, poet and dramatist (died 1668)
- May 12 - Joachim von Sandrart, art historian (died 1688)
- June 6 - Pierre Corneille, dramatist (died 1684)
- date unknown - Pierre du Ryer, dramatist (died 1658)
[edit] Deaths
- October 5 - Philippe Desportes, poet (born 1546)
- November 13 - Geronimo Mercuriali, philologist and medical writer (born 1530)
- November 22 - Sir Henry Billingsley, translator
- date unknown
- John Lyly, dramatist and novelist (born c1553)
- Nicolaus Taurellus, philosopher and theologian (born 1547)
[edit] References
- ^ Scholars date completion of these plays as between 1603 and 1606. Boyce, Charles (1990). Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare. New York: Roundtable Press.