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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1605'''.

==Events==
[[File:Miguel de Cervantes (1605) El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha.png |thumb|''[[Don Quixote]]'' 1st ed. title page]]
*[[January 1]] – The [[Children of the Chapel|Queen's Revels Children]] perform [[George Chapman]]'s ''[[All Fools]]'' at the court of King [[James I of England]].
*[[January 6]] – At the first performance of ''[[The Masque of Blackness]]'' at the Banqueting Hall, [[Whitehall Palace]], the cast includes [[Penelope Blount, Countess of Devonshire|Penelope Rich]] and [[Lady Mary Wroth]].
*[[January 7]] – The [[King's Men (playing company)|King's Men]] perform Shakespeare's ''[[Henry V (play)|Henry V]]'' at court.
*[[January 8]] – [[Ben Jonson]]'s ''[[Every Man Out of His Humour]]'' is performed at court by the King's Men.
*January – The [[King's Men (playing company)|King's Men]] perform ''[[Love's Labour's Lost]]'' before [[Anne of Denmark|Queen Anne]].
*[[January 16]] – The first part of [[Miguel de Cervantes]]' [[satire]] on [[chivalry]], ''[[Don Quixote]]'' (''El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha'', "The Ingenious [[Hidalgo (nobility)|Hidalgo]] Don Quixote of [[La Mancha]]", claimed to be translated from Arabic by Cide Hamete Benengeli), in dialects of [[Old Spanish language|Old Spanish]] and printed by [[Juan de la Cuesta]] in 1604, is published by Francisco de Robles in [[Madrid]]. Most of the first edition is shipped to [[Spanish America]].<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Cervantes, Miguel de |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]] |year=2002}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |first=J. |last=Ormsby |url=http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/c/cervantes/c41d/preface1.html |title=Translator's Preface |year=2013 |accessdate=2013-11-19 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060903225311/http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/c/cervantes/c41d/preface1.html |archivedate=2006-09-03}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|title=Don Quichotté, best-seller mondial |first=Serge |last=Gruzinski |date=July–August 2007 |issue=322 |page=30 |journal=[[L'Histoire]]}}</ref> One of the first significant [[novel]]s in western literary tradition, it becomes a global [[bestseller]] almost at once and new editions, authorized and [[pirated]], are produced across the [[Iberian Peninsula]] by the end of the year.
*[[February 2]] – The King's Men give a repeat performance of [[Ben Jonson]]'s ''[[Every Man in His Humour]]'' at court.
*[[February 10]] and [[February 12]] – Performances of ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'' are given at court.
*[[May 30]] – Bishop and historian [[John Spottiswoode]] becomes a member of the Scottish privy council.
*[[August 27]]–[[August 30]] – [[James I of England|King James I]], [[Anne of Denmark|Queen Anne]], and their son [[Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales|Prince Henry]] visit the [[University of Oxford]]. Gentlemen from [[St John's College, Oxford|St John's]] and [[Christ Church, Oxford|Christ Church]] colleges entertain them with a series of plays, including (at the latter) an early example of perspective scenery. The big success is [[Samuel Daniel]]'s ''The Queen's Arcadia''. [[Matthew Gwinne]]'s Latin play ''Vertumnus'' puts James to sleep.
*October – ''[[Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien]]'' by [[Johann Carolus]] in [[Strasbourg]] ([[Holy Roman Empire]]) first appears. It is generally regarded as the world's first [[newspaper]].<ref>{{Cite book |title=Timeline of History |year=2011 |publisher=DK Publishing |isbn=978-0-7566-8681-9|page=203}}</ref> ''De Nieuwe Tijdinghen'', a Dutch proto-newspaper, is perhaps also published this year.

''Uncertain dates''
*[[Richard Rowlands]] publishes ''A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence in Antiquities concerning the most noble and renowned English Nation'' in [[Antwerp]], including the first English-language telling of the legend of the [[Pied Piper of Hamelin]].<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Academy and Literature |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ENA2AQAAMAAJ |year=1908 |publisher=Academy Publishing Company |page=366}}</ref>
*[[Luis de Góngora]] has some poems published in an anthology.<ref>{{Cite book |author1=O. Classe |author2=[Anonymus AC02468681] |title=Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English: A-L |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=myLDA0_brhcC&pg=PA559 |year=2000 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-884964-36-7 |pages=559–}}</ref>
*[[The Rose (theatre)|The Rose theatre]] in London is abandoned after its lease runs out.<ref>{{Cite book |first=John|last=Hines |title=Voices in the Past: English Literature and Archaeology |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DM8wT7fJmTwC&pg=PA145 |year=2004 |publisher=Boydell & Brewer |isbn=978-0-85991-883-1 |pages=145}}</ref>

==New books==
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===Prose===
*Anonymous – ''Ratsey's Ghost''
*[[Johann Arndt]] – ''Vier Bücher vom wahren Christenthum'' (Four Books of True Christianity, 1605–1610)
*[[Francis Bacon]] – ''[[The Advancement of Learning]]''
*[[William Camden]] – ''Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine''
*[[Miguel de Cervantes]] – ''[[Don Quixote]]''
*[[Melchior Goldast]] – ''Suevicarum rerum scriptores''
*[[Garcilaso de la Vega (chronicler)|Garcilaso de la Vega]] – ''Historia de la Florida''

===Drama===
*Anonymous
**''The Fair Maid of Bristow'' (published)
**''The First Part of Hieronimo'' (published)
**''The History of Richard Whittington, of his lowe byrth, his great fortune'' (licensed; later lost)
**''The True Chronicle History of King Leir'' (published)
**''[[The London Prodigal]]'' (published with attribution to [[William Shakespeare]])<ref name="RSC Collab">{{cite book|author=Shakespeare, William|title=Collaborative Plays|series=The RSC Shakespeare|location=Basingstoke|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|year=2013|isbn=978-1-137-27144-0|display-authors=etal}}</ref>
*[[Robert Armin]] and others – ''Fool upon Fool'' (published)
*[[George Chapman]], [[Ben Jonson]] and [[John Marston (playwright)|John Marston]] – ''[[Eastward Hoe]]'' (performed and published)
*[[George Chapman]] – ''[[All Fools]]'' (published)
*[[Henry Chettle]] and [[Thomas Heywood]] (?) – ''The Trial of Chivalry'' (published)
*[[Samuel Daniel]] – ''The Queen's Arcadia''
*[[Thomas Dekker (poet)|Thomas Dekker]] and [[John Webster]] – ''[[Northward Ho]]''
*[[Thomas Heywood]] – ''[[If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody]]''
*[[Ben Jonson]]
**''[[The Masque of Blackness]]''
**''[[Sejanus: His Fall|Sejanus]]'' (published)
*[[John Marston (playwright)|John Marston]] – ''[[The Dutch Courtesan]]'' (published)
*[[Thomas Middleton]] – ''[[A Yorkshire Tragedy]]'' (attributed; approximate year; published [[1608 in literature|1608]] with attribution to "W. Shakspeare")<ref name="RSC Collab"/>
*[[Samuel Rowley]] – ''[[When You See Me, You Know Me]]'' (published)

===Poetry===
*[[Samuel Daniel]] – ''Certain Small Poems''
*[[John Davies of Hereford]] – ''Humours Heav'n on Earth''

==Births==
*June – [[Thomas Randolph (poet)|Thomas Randolph]], English poet and dramatist (died [[1635 in literature|1635]])
*[[July 29]] – [[Simon Dach]], German poet and hymnist (died [[1659 in literature|1659]])
*[[July 25]] – [[Theodore Haak]], German-born [[Calvinist]] translator and natural philosopher (died [[1690 in literature|1690]])<ref>A. G. Keller, "Haak, Theodore (1605–1690)" (Oxford, UK: ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: OUP'', 2004)
[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11827 Retrieved 25 July 2017]</ref>
*[[September 12]] – [[William Dugdale]], English antiquary and herald (died [[1686 in literature|1686]])
*[[October 19]] – Sir [[Thomas Browne]], English writer and polymath (died [[1682 in literature|1682]])
*November – [[François Combefis]], French Dominican patrologist (died [[1679 in literature|1679]])
*[[November 4]] – [[Thomas Nabbes]], English dramatist (died c. 1645)

''Uncertain dates''
*[[Walter Blith]], English writer on husbandry (died [[1654 in literature|1654]])
*[[John Gauden]], English writer and bishop (died [[1662 in literature|1662]])
*[[William Habington]], English poet (died [[1654 in literature|1654]])
*[[Sor Marcela de San Félix]], Spanish poet, dramatist and nun (died [[1687 in literature|1687]])

''Probable year''
*[[Hugh Paulinus de Cressy]], English church scholar (died [[1674 in literature|1674]])

==Deaths==
*[[March 26]] – [[Jakob Ayrer]], German dramatist (born c. 1543)
*[[April 6]] – [[John Stow]], English historian (born c. 1525)
*May – [[Edward Lively]], English linguist and Bible scholar (born [[1545 in literature|1545]])
*[[September 9]] – [[Heinrich Khunrath]], German alchemist and philosopher (born c. 1560)
*[[September 23]] – [[Pontus de Tyard]], French poet (born c. 1521)
*[[October 13]] – [[Theodore Beza]], French Protestant theologian (born [[1519 in literature|1519]])

''Uncertain dates''
*[[William Haughton (playwright)|William Haughton]], English dramatist
*[[Lodewijk Toeput]], Flemish painter and poet (born c. 1550)

==References==
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