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Overview of the events of 1616 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1616 .
Events
January 1 – King
James I of England attends the
masque
The Golden Age Restored , a satire by
Ben Jonson on a fallen court favorite, the
Earl of Somerset . The King asks for a repeat performance on January 4.
February 1 – King James I of England grants
Ben Jonson an annual pension of 100
marks , making him de facto
poet laureate .
[1]
March 5 –
Nicolaus Copernicus '
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (1543) is placed on the
Index Librorum Prohibitorum by the Roman Catholic Church.
March 19 – Sir
Walter Ralegh ,
English explorer of the
New World , is released from the
Tower of London , where he was imprisoned for treason and has been composing The Historie of the World , in order to conduct a second (ill-fated) expedition in search of
El Dorado in
South America .
[2]
April 22 (
Gregorian calendar ) –
Miguel de Cervantes dies (three days after completing
Los Trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda ) in Madrid and is buried the following day in the Trinitarias convent there.
April 23 (
Julian calendar ) –
William Shakespeare dies (on or about his 52nd birthday) in retirement in
Stratford-upon-Avon and is buried two days later in the
Church of the Holy Trinity there.
June 10 – Foundation date of Ets Haim Library, housed from 1675 at the
Portuguese Synagogue (Amsterdam) .
August –
Christopher Beeston acquires the lease of the
Cockpit off
Drury Lane in London and converts it into a theatre.
[3]
October/November –
Ben Jonson 's satirical five-act comedy
The Devil is an Ass is produced at the
Blackfriars Theatre , London, by the
King's Men , poking fun at contemporary belief in witchcraft (published 1631).
November 6 /
25 –
Ben Jonson 's works appear in a collected
folio edition; the first of any English playwright.
[4]
[5]
December 25 – Ben Jonson's
Christmas, His Masque is presented before King James I of England.
unknown date – Marie Venier, called Laporte, becomes the first female player to appear on the
stage in
Paris .
[6]
New books
Prose
Drama
Poetry
Births
Shakespeare's gravestone
Deaths
January 6 –
Philip Henslowe , English theatre impresario (born
1550 )
February 13 –
Anders Sørensen Vedel , Danish historian (born
1542 )
March 6 –
Francis Beaumont , English dramatist (born
1584 )
April 22 (Gregorian calendar) –
Miguel de Cervantes , Spanish novelist (born
1547 )
April 23 (Julian calendar) –
William Shakespeare , English dramatist and poet (born
1564 )
[12]
April 23 (Gregorian calendar) –
Garcilaso de la Vega , Peruvian Spanish chronicler (born
1539 )
August 7 –
Vincenzo Scamozzi , Venetian writer on architecture (born
1548 )
November 23 –
Richard Hakluyt , English travel writer (born
1553 )
unknown date -
Dorothy Leigh , English writer remembered for The Mother's Blessing , 1616 (born, unknown date)
References
^ Donaldson, Ian (2004).
"Jonson, Benjamin (1572–1637)" .
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press.
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/15116 . Retrieved 2012-10-09 . (subscription or
UK public library membership required)
^ Penguin Pocket On This Day . Penguin Reference Library. 2006.
ISBN
0-14-102715-0 .
^
Wickham, Glynne (1972). Early English Stages 1300 to 1660, Vol. 2 , 1576 to 1660, Part II . London: Routledge. p. 117.
^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 170–172.
ISBN
0-7126-5616-2 .
^ Bland, M. (1998). "William Stansby and the production of the Workes of Beniamin Jonson , 1615–16". The Library . 20 .
Bibliographical Society : 10.
doi :
10.1093/library/20.1.1 .
^ Searles, Colbert (1925). "Allusions to the Contemporary Theater of 1616 by Francois Osset".
Modern Language Notes . 40 (8): 481–483.
^ O. Classe; [Anonymus AC02468681] (2000).
Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English: A-L . Taylor & Francis. p. 261.
ISBN
978-1-884964-36-7 . {{
cite book }}
: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (
link )
^
"Mirror of the Cruel and Horrible Spanish Tyranny Perpetrated in the Netherlands, by the Tyrant, the Duke of Alba, and Other Commanders of King Philip II" .
World Digital Library . 1620. Retrieved 2013-08-25 .
^ Logan, Terence P.; Smith, Denzell S., eds. (1975).
The Popular School: A Survey and Bibliography of Recent Studies in English Renaissance Drama . Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. p.
69 .
^ Date evidence, etc.
Retrieved 12 September 2017.
Archived 2017-09-13 at the
Wayback Machine
^ Hockcliffe, E., ed. (1908). The diary of the Rev. Ralph Josselin . Great Britain: Royal Historical Society. p. 6.
^
"William Shakespeare: The life and legacy of England's bard" . BBC Timelines . Retrieved 11 May 2019 .