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Overview of the events of 1603 in literature
Overview of the events of 1603 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1603 .
Events
Early in the year –
Thomas Middleton marries Magdalen (Mary) Marbeck in London.
February/March –
Thomas Heywood 's domestic tragedy
A Woman Killed with Kindness is performed by
Worcester's Men at
The Rose in London.
March 19 – Performances in the London theaters are suspended due to the terminal illness of Queen
Elizabeth I of England .
March 24 – Queen
Elizabeth I of England dies at
Richmond Palace , ending the
Elizabethan era begun in
1558 , and is succeeded by her cousin King
James VI of Scotland , where he has ruled since 1567, thus
uniting the crowns of
Scotland and
England .
[1]
Ben Jonson and
Thomas Dekker collaborate on a pageant to welcome the new king and
Thomas Middleton writes a speech of welcome to him.
c. April – An outbreak of
bubonic plague closes the London public theaters for a year.
May 11 – Chronicler
Richard Baker is knighted by James I.
May 19 – The London acting company previously known as the
Lord Chamberlain's Men comes under the patronage of the new monarch and is chartered as the
King's Men . The principals are named as
Lawrence Fletcher ,
William Shakespeare ,
Richard Burbage ,
Augustine Phillips ,
John Heminges ,
Henry Condell ,
William Sly ,
Robert Armin and
Richard Cowley .
August 17 – The
Accademia dei Lincei , the oldest scientific academy in the world, is founded in
Rome by
Federico Cesi .
October – Last known reference to
Henry Chettle .
November 17 – Sir
Walter Ralegh goes on trial for
treason in the converted Great Hall of
Winchester Castle .
[1] He is found guilty but his life is spared by the King at this time and he is returned to imprisonment in the
Tower of London .
December 2 –
As You Like It may have been performed at
Wilton House before King James I.
[2]
Uncertain dates
New books
Prose
Drama
Poetry
Births
Uncertain dates
Probable year
Deaths
Uncertain dates
References
^
a
b Penguin Pocket On This Day . Penguin Reference Library. 2006.
ISBN
0-14-102715-0 .
^ According to a letter which historian William Cory in 1865 claimed to exist.
^ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004).
The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature . Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-860634-6 .
^ David H. Stam (November 2001).
International Dictionary of Library Histories . Routledge. p. 479.
ISBN
978-1-136-77785-1 .
^ de Houtman, Fr. (1603).
Spraeck ende woord-boeck, in de Maleysche ende Madagaskarsche talen, met vele Arabische ende Turcsche woorden. Inhoudende twaelf tsamensprekeninghen inde Maleysche, ende drie in de Madagaskarsche spraken, met alderhande woorden ende namen, ghestela naer dordre vanden A.B.C. alles int Nederduytsch gestellt: noch zijn hier byghevoecht de declinatien van vele vaste Sterren, staende ontrent den Zuyd-pool .
Amsterdam : Jan Evertsz. Cloppenburch. Retrieved January 2, 2012 .
^ Dodds, M. H. (1931). "William Percy and James I". Notes and Queries . 161 : 13–14.
^ William Shakespeare; Samuel Johnson; George Steevens (1813).
The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes . J. Nichols and Son. p. 505.