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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.
  • February 2 – The King's Men perform Barnabe Barnes's anti-Catholic tragedy The Devil's Charter at the English Court.
  • June 5 – Physician John Hall marries Susanna, daughter of William Shakespeare, at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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

Prose

  • 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
  • Antoine Loysel – Institutes coutumières
  • César Oudin – Thrésor des deux langues françoise et espagnole
  • Lawrence Twine (translator) – The Pattern of Painful Adventures, second edition (a source for Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre)
  • Honoré d'Urfé – L'Astrée (part 1)

Drama

  • 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

  • Thomas Dekker – The Seven Deadly Sins of London

Births

  • 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)
  • 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

  • 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)
  • 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)
  • c. September – Cuthbert Burby, English publisher and bookseller
  • October 31 – Wawrzyniec Grzymała Goślicki, Polish philosopher (born c. 1540)
  • Unknown date – Dinko Ranjina, Croatian poet (born 1536)

References