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Overview of the events of 1616 in literature
Overview of the events of 1616 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1616 .
January 1 – King James I of England attends the masque The Golden Age Restored 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 Index Librorum Prohibitorum 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 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 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 unknown date – Marie Venier, called Laporte, becomes the first female player to appear on the stage in Paris .[6] New books [ edit ] Shakespeare's gravestone 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 [ edit ]
^ Donaldson, Ian (2004). "Jonson, Benjamin (1572–1637)" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 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 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 . 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 69 . ^ Date evidence, etc.
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