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Overview of the events of 1605 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1605 .
Events
Don Quixote 1st ed. title page
January 1 – The
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 Rich and
Lady Mary Wroth .
January 7 – The
King's Men perform Shakespeare's
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 perform
Love's Labour's Lost before
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 Don Quixote of
La Mancha ", claimed to be translated from Arabic by Cide Hamete Benengeli), in dialects of
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 .
[1]
[2]
[3] One of the first significant
novels 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 –
King James I ,
Queen Anne , and their son
Prince Henry visit the
University of Oxford . Gentlemen from
St John's and
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 .
[4] De Nieuwe Tijdinghen , a Dutch proto-newspaper, is perhaps also published this year.
Uncertain dates
New books
Prose
Drama
Poetry
Births
Uncertain dates
Probable year
Deaths
Uncertain dates
References
^ "Cervantes, Miguel de".
Encyclopædia Britannica . 2002.
^ Ormsby, J. (2013).
"Translator's Preface" . Archived from
the original on September 3, 2006. Retrieved November 19, 2013 .
^ Gruzinski, Serge (July–August 2007). "Don Quichotté, best-seller mondial".
L'Histoire (322): 30.
^ Timeline of History . DK Publishing. 2011. p. 203.
ISBN
978-0-7566-8681-9 .
^
The Academy and Literature . Academy Publishing Company. 1908. p. 366.
^ O. Classe; [Anonymus AC02468681] (2000).
Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English: A-L . Taylor & Francis. pp. 559–.
ISBN
978-1-884964-36-7 . {{
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link )
^ Hines, John (2004).
Voices in the Past: English Literature and Archaeology . Boydell & Brewer. p. 145.
ISBN
978-0-85991-883-1 .
^
a
b Shakespeare, William; et al. (2013). Collaborative Plays . The RSC Shakespeare. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
ISBN
978-1-137-27144-0 .
^ A. G. Keller, "Haak, Theodore (1605–1690)" (Oxford, UK: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: OUP , 2004)
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