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Overview of the events of 1597 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1597 .
Events
February –
Pembroke's Men contract with
Francis Langley to play the next year at his new
Swan Theatre in London.
[1]
By March –
Romeo and Juliet becomes the first of Shakespeare's plays to be published as a "
bad quarto ".
[2]
March 17 – After the death of
William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham on March 5, his place as
Lord Chamberlain of England is taken by
George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon , son of a previous Lord Chamberlain. Lord Hunsdon reverses Cobham's policy of hostility toward the actors in
English Renaissance theatre and returns to his father's policy of general tolerance and patronage. The
playing company under his patronage, which includes
William Shakespeare and
Richard Burbage , becomes the
Lord Chamberlain's Men .
April 23 – The feast for the
Order of the Garter at the
Palace of Whitehall in London is a likely occasion for the first performance of Shakespeare's comedy
The Merry Wives of Windsor .
[3]
c.
May 1 – The first performance of
George Chapman 's
An Humorous Day's Mirth is the first
comedy of humours played by the
Admiral's Men at
The Rose Theatre in London.
July – The season goes disastrously wrong for
Pembroke's Men , when they stage the scandalous play
The Isle of Dogs in London. This provokes the authorities to close all of the London theaters for the remainder of the summer.
Ben Jonson , co-writer of the play with
Thomas Nashe , is arrested on the orders of Queen
Elizabeth I of England 's "interrogator,"
Richard Topcliffe , briefly jailed in
Marshalsea Prison , and charged with "Leude and mutynous behavior".
December –
Miguel de Cervantes is jailed in
Seville for discrepancies in his accounts as a
tax collector .
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New books
Prose
Drama
Poetry
Births
Deaths
References
^ Andrew Gurr; Professor of English Andrew Gurr (23 January 1992).
The Shakespearean Stage, 1574-1642 . Cambridge University Press. p. 42.
ISBN
978-0-521-42240-6 .
^ Stanley Wells (28 November 2002).
Shakespeare Survey . Cambridge University Press. p. 27.
ISBN
978-0-521-52388-2 .
^ Duncan-Jones, Katherine (2001).
Ungentle Shakespeare: scenes from his life . London:
Arden Shakespeare . p.
97 .
ISBN
1-903436-26-5 .
^ James Fitzmaurice-Kelly (1913).
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra: A Memoir . Clarendon Press. p. 98.
^ Francis Bacon (1876).
Bacon's Essays . Longmans, Green, and Company. p. 273.
^ Christopher Marlowe (15 October 2010).
Edward the Second . Broadview Press. p. 226.
ISBN
978-1-55111-910-6 .
^ Jan Campanus Vodňanský (1597).
Turcicorum tyrannorum qui inde usque ab Otomanno rebus Turcicis praefuerunt, Descriptio . Typis Otthmarianis.
^ Henslowe, Philip (1908).
Henslowe's Diary, Part II: Commentary . A. H. Bullen. p. 178. Retrieved 17 March 2019 .
^ Glynne William Gladstone Wickham (2002).
1576 to 1660, Part I . Psychology Press. p. 15.
ISBN
978-0-415-19785-4 .
^ Lajb Fuks; Renate G. Fuks-Mansfeld (1984).
Hebrew Typography in the Northern Netherlands, 1585-1815: Historical Evaluation, and Descriptive Bibliography . BRILL. p. 17.
ISBN
90-04-07056-7 .
^
The Encyclopaedia Britannica, Or, Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature . Adam and Charles Black. 1842. p. 239.