Editing 1600 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1600.
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==Events==
*[[January 1]] – The [[Admiral's Men]] perform [[Thomas Dekker (poet)|Dekker]]'s ''[[The Shoemaker's Holiday]]'' at the English Court.<ref>{{cite book|author=Thomas Dekker|title=The Shoemaker's Holiday: Thomas Dekker|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DZWk9ev_tgUC&pg=PA82|date=11 September 1999|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=978-0-7190-3099-4|pages=82}}</ref>
*[[January 8]] – Carpenter [[Peter Street (carpenter)|Peter Street]] is contracted to build the [[Fortune Playhouse]] just north of the [[City of London]] by theatrical manager [[Philip Henslowe]] and his stepson-in-law, the leading actor [[Edward Alleyn]], for the [[Admiral's Men]], who move there from [[The Rose (theatre)|The Rose]] by the end of the year.<ref>{{cite book|editor1=Glynne Wickham |title=English Professional Theatre, 1530-1660|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2000|isbn=9780521230124|page=534}}</ref>
*[[March 6]] – [[George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon|George Carey, Lord Hunsdon]], the [[Lord Chamberlain]] of England, entertains the Flemish ambassador Ludowic Verreyken at Hunsdon House in the [[Blackfriars, London|Blackfriars]] district of [[London]]. The entertainment includes a performance of [[Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Henry IV, Part 1]]'' by the [[Lord Chamberlain's Men]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Michael Justin Davis|title=The landscape of William Shakespeare|publisher=Webb & Bower|year=1987|isbn=9780863501036|page=136}}</ref>
*[[March 10]] – [[Philip Henslowe]] lends [[William Haughton (playwright)|William Haughton]] ten shillings "to release him out of the Clink".<ref>{{cite book|author=Charlotte Endymion Porter|title=Shakespeariana: A Critical and Contemporary Review of Shakesperian Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2LA9AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA31|year=1886|publisher=L. Scott Publishing Company|pages=31}}</ref>
*c. April – Publication of [[Ben Jonson]]'s 1599 play ''[[Every Man out of His Humour]]'';<ref name="Cassell's Chronology">{{cite book |last=Williams |first=Hywel |title=Cassell's Chronology of World History |url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will |url-access=registration |location=London |publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson |year=2005 |isbn=0-304-35730-8 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/238 238–243]}}</ref> it goes through three editions this year.
*[[April 18]] – [[Hortensio Félix Paravicino]] joins the Trinitarian Order.<ref>{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Paravicino y Arteaga, Hortensio Felix|volume=20|page=799}}</ref>
*[[June 3]] – [[Thomas Pavier]] becomes a publisher in the [[City of London]], securing the rights to the plays ''Captain Thomas Stukeley'', ''[[Sir John Oldcastle]]'', [[Thomas Kyd|Kyd]]'s ''[[The Spanish Tragedy]]'' and [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Henry V (play)|Henry V]]''.
*[[June 4]] – The last performances of the [[Chester]] [[Mystery play|miracle plays]] take place.<ref>{{cite book|author=Albin Wallace|title=Mediaeval English Mystery Plays, Rituals, and Archetypes|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|year=2024|isbn=9781036403737|page=33}}</ref>
*By August – [[Robert Armin]] succeeds [[William Kempe|Will Kempe]] as clown of the [[Lord Chamberlain's Men]] at the [[Globe Theatre]] in London. By September, Kempe is playing with [[Worcester's Men]] at [[The Rose (theatre)]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Charles Stanley Felver|title=Robert Armin, Shakespeare's Fool: A Biographical Essay|publisher=Kent State University|year=1961|pages=11-23}}</ref>
*September – [[Richard Burbage]] leases the disused [[Blackfriars Theatre]] in London to [[Henry Evans (theatre)|Henry Evans]] and [[Nathaniel Giles]] for £40 per year. Evans and Giles use the space for the performances of the [[Children of the Chapel]]. Giles drafts Solomon Pavy, age ten, into his acting troupe.
*[[September 8]] – [[John Marston (playwright)|John Marston]]'s ''[[Jack Drum's Entertainment]]'' is entered in the Stationers' Register. It is being acted by the newly re-formed [[Children of Paul's]]. The character of Brabant Senior represents [[Ben Jonson]], thus continuing London's [[War of the Theatres]]. Jonson responds with ''[[Cynthia's Revels]]'', acted by the Children of the Chapel at the Blackfriars Theatre (and over Christmas at Court, but without success there).
*[[October 18]] – [[Juan Ruiz de Alarcón]] begins his legal studies at the [[University of Salamanca]].
*[[November 4]] – [[Tirso de Molina]] joins the [[Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy]].<ref>{{CathEncy|wstitle=Gabriel Téllez}}</ref>
*By end – The Admiral's Men are playing at [[Edward Alleyn]] and [[Philip Henslowe]]'s new [[Fortune Playhouse]] just north of the [[City of London]].
*[[Biblioteca Riccardiana]] established in [[Florence]].

==New books==
===Prose===
*[[Robert Armin]] (as "Clonnico de Curtanio Snuffe") – ''Fool Upon Fool''
*[[William Camden]] (anonymously) – ''Reges, reginae, nobiles et alii in ecclesia collegiata B. Petri Westmonasterii sepulti'' (tombs and epitaph of [[Westminster Abbey]])
*[[Fabritio Caroso]] – ''Nobiltà de dame''
*[[Olivier de Serres]] – ''Théâtre d'agriculture''
*[[Lope de Vega]] – ''Romancero general''
*[[William Gilbert (astronomer)|William Gilbert]] and Aaron Dowling – ''[[De Magnete]], Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure''
*[[Philemon Holland]] – ''The Romane Historie'' (translation of [[Livy]]'s ''[[Ab Urbe Condita]]'')
*[[Aonio Paleario]] (executed 1570) – ''Actio in pontifices romanos et eorum asseclas''
*[[Samuel Rowlands]] – ''The Letting of Humour's Blood in the Head-vaine'' with ''A Mery Meetinge, or tis Mery when Knaves mete''

===Drama===
*Anonymous
**''Look About You'' (published)<ref>Lawrence, William J. (1927). ''Pre-Restoration Stage Studies.'' Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. pp. 277–289.</ref>
**''[[The Maid's Metamorphosis]]''
**''[[Sir John Oldcastle]]'' (published)
**''The Weakest Goeth to the Wall'' (published)
**''[[The Wisdom of Doctor Dodypoll]]''
*[[Henry Chettle]] & [[John Day (dramatist)|John Day]] – ''The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green'', Part 1 (Parts 2 and 3, by Day and [[William Haughton (playwright)|William Haughton]], lost)
*[[Georgios Chortatzis]] – ''[[Erofili]]'' (approximate year)
*[[Lope de Vega]] – year of some approximate
**''La campana de Aragón''
**''El castigo del discreto''
**''La imperial de Otón''
**''El postrer godo de España''
**''La quinta de Florencia''
**''Roma abrasada''
**''La viuda valenciana ([[The Widow from Valencia]])''
*[[Thomas Dekker (writer)|Thomas Dekker]] – ''[[Old Fortunatus]]'' (published)
*Thomas Dekker and others (probable) – ''[[Lust's Dominion]]'' (approximate date)
*Thomas Dekker, [[John Marston (playwright)|John Marston]], and [[William Haughton (playwright)|William Haughton]] – ''The Spanish Moor's Tragedy'' (possibly same as ''Lust's Dominion'')<ref>{{cite book |editor1=Logan, Terence P. |editor2=Smith, Denzell S. |year=1973 |title=The Predecessors of Shakespeare: A Survey and Bibliography of Recent Studies in English Renaissance Drama |location=Lincoln |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |page=32}}</ref>
*[[Thomas Heywood]] – ''Edward IV, Parts 1 and 2'' published
*Thomas Heywood (attrib.) and others? – ''[[Edward IV (play)|Edward IV]]'' (published)
*[[Ben Jonson]] – ''[[Cynthia's Revels]]''
*John Marston – ''[[Jack Drum's Entertainment]]''
*[[Thomas Nashe]] – ''[[Summer's Last Will and Testament]]'' (published)
*[[William Shakespeare]] – ''[[Henry IV, Part 2]],'' ''[[The Merchant of Venice]],'' ''[[Henry V (play)|Henry V]],'' ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]],'' and ''[[Much Ado About Nothing]]'' (published)

===Poetry===
*Siddha Basavaraja – ''Bedagina Vachanagalu'' (anthology)
*''England's Helicon'' (anthology including work by [[Edmund Spenser]], [[Michael Drayton]], [[Thomas Lodge]], [[Philip Sidney]] etc.)
*[[Robert Jones (composer)|Robert Jones]] – ''The First Book of Songs and Airs''
*[[Gervase Markham]] – ''The Tears of the Beloved''
*[[Thomas Middleton]] – ''The Ghost of Lucrece''

==Births==
*[[January 1]] – [[Friedrich Spanheim]], Flemish writer (died [[1649 in literature|1649]])
*[[January 17]] – [[Pedro Calderón de la Barca]], Spanish dramatist (died [[1681 in literature|1681]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Pedro Calderón de la Barca|title=Love is No Laughing Matter|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_y8DEAAAQBAJ&pg=PR7|year=1986|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-85668-365-7|pages=7}}</ref>
*[[February 2]] – [[Gabriel Naudé]], French librarian and scholar (died [[1653 in literature|1653]])
*[[September 19]] – [[Hermann Busenbaum]], German Jesuit theologian (died [[1668 in literature|1668]])
*[[October 5]] – [[Thomas Goodwin]], English theologian (died [[1680 in literature|1680]])
*November – [[John Ogilby]], Scottish translator (died [[1676 in literature|1676]])
*[[November 19]] – [[Leo Aitzema]], Dutch historian (died [[1669 in literature|1669]])
*''Unknown dates''
**[[Martin de Barcos]], French Jansenist theologian (died [[1678 in literature|1678]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Hugh James Rose|title=A New General Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dts8AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA166|year=1857|publisher=T. Fellowes|pages=166}}</ref>
**[[Marin le Roy de Gomberville]], French poet and novelist (died [[1674 in literature|1674]])
**[[William Prynne]], English Puritan controversialist (died [[1669 in literature|1669]])
**[[Adriaan Vlacq]], Dutch publisher (died [[1667 in literature|1667]])
**[[Brian Walton (bishop)|Brian Walton, Bishop of Chester]], English compiler of Polyglot Bible and bishop (died [[1661 in literature|1661]])
*''Probable year of birth''
**[[Piaras Feiritéar]], Irish poet (hanged [[1653 in literature|1653]])
**[[Richard Flecknoe]], English dramatist and poet (died [[1678 in literature|1678]])
**[[Samuel Hartlib]], German-born English polymath (died [[1662 in literature|1662]])

==Deaths==
*[[January 23]] – [[John Case (Aristotelian writer)|John Case]], English commentator on Aristotle<ref>{{DNB Cite|wstitle=Case, John (d.1600)}}</ref>
*[[February 15]] – [[José de Acosta]], Spanish naturalist (born [[1539 in literature|1539]])
*April – [[Thomas Deloney]], English novelist and balladist (born [[1543 in literature|1543]])
*[[May 18]] – [[Fulvio Orsini]], Italian historian (born [[1529 in literature|1529]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Jan Hendrik Jongkees|title=Fulvio Orsini's Imagines and the Portrait of Aristotle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iLpJAQAAIAAJ|year=1960|publisher=J. B. Wolters|page=11}}</ref>
*[[June 25]] – [[David Chytraeus]], German theologian and historian (born [[1530 in literature|1530]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Virginia Brown|author2=James Hankins|author3=Robert A. Kaster|title=Catalogus Translationum Et Commentariorum: Medieval and Renaissance Latin Translations and Commentaries : Annotated Lists and Guides|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=revheH-e0KgC&pg=PA168|date=May 2003|publisher=CUA Press|isbn=978-0-8132-1300-2|pages=168}}</ref>
*[[September 25]] – [[Antoine du Verdier]], French politician and writer (born [[1544 in literature|1544]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Alexander Chalmers|title=The General Biographical Dictionary Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U1pMAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA292|year=1816|publisher=J. Nichols|pages=292}}</ref>
*[[October 12]] – [[Luis de Molina]], Spanish Jesuit writer (born [[1535 in literature|1535]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Diego Alonso-Lasheras SJ|title=Luis de Molina's De Iustitia et Iure: Justice as Virtue in an Economic Context|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DeN5DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA14|date=11 April 2011|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-20966-4|pages=14}}</ref>
*November – [[Robert Wilson (dramatist)|Robert Wilson]], English dramatist (date of birth unknown)
*[[November 2]] – [[Richard Hooker]], English theologian (born [[1554 in literature|1554]])<ref>{{cite book|author=W. J. Torrance Kirby|title=Richard Hooker's Doctrine of the Royal Supremacy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qgJ46-4FfdsC&pg=PA31|year=1990|publisher=BRILL|isbn=90-04-08851-2|pages=31}}</ref>
*[[November 23]] or [[November 24|24]] – [[Balthasar Russow]], Estonian chronicler (born [[1536 in literature|1536]])
*''Unknown dates''
**[[Bâkî]] (Mahmud Abdülbâkî), Ottoman Turkish poet (born [[1526 in literature|1526]])
**[[Mustafa Selaniki]], Ottoman chronicler (date of birth unknown)

==References==
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