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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Poetry 5 Births 6 Deaths

Events

• On September 22, Ben Jonson is charged with manslaughter, after killing actor Gabriel Spenser in a duel.
• Lancelot Andrewes turns down the bishoprics of both Ely and Salisbury.
• Lope de Vega marries Juana de Guardo.
• The year sees a burst of satirical writing, especially from John Marston; the excesses would lead to an official suppression in the following year.

New books

• John Bodenham - Politeuphuia (Wits' Commonwealth)
• King James VI of Scotland - The Trew Law of Free Monarchies
• Francis Meres - Palladis Tamia, Wits Treasury
• John Stow - Survey of London

New drama

• Anonymous - Mucedorus published
• Samuel Brandon - Virtuous Octavia
• Henry Chettle, Henry Porter & Ben Jonson - Hot Anger Soon Cold
• Robert Greene - The Scottish History of James IV published
• William Haughton - Englishmen for My Money
• Ben Jonson - Every Man in His Humour
• Anthony Munday - The Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntingdon
• Anthony Munday (& Henry Chettle?) - The Death of Robert Earl of Huntingdon
• Henry Porter - Love Prevented
• William Shakespeare - Henry IV, Part 1 and Love's Labor's Lost published

Poetry

• Richard Barnfield – The Encomium of Lady Pecunia
• Lope de Vega – La Arcadia
• Lope de Vega – La Dragontea
• Christopher Marlowe – Hero and Leander (completed by George Chapman and published after Marlowe's death)
• John Marston – The Metamorphosis of Pigmalian's Image; The Scourge of Villanie

Births

• August 7 - Georg Stiernhielm, poet

Deaths

• January 9 - Jasper Heywood, translator
• December 6 - Paolo Paruta, historian
• December 15 - Philips van Marnix, lord of Sint-Aldegonde, statesman and author
• date unknown
  • Friedrich Dedekind, theologian
  • Jacopo Mazzoni, philosopher
  • Heinrich Rantzau, humanist writer