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Overview of the events of 1608 in literature
Overview of the events of 1608 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1608 .
Events
January 10 –
Ben Jonson 's
The Masque of Beauty is performed by
Queen Anne and her retinue at the
Banqueting House, Whitehall , a sequel to
The Masque of Blackness .
[1]
February 9 – Another masque by Jonson,
The Hue and Cry After Cupid , is performed at the Banqueting House, with sets designed by
Inigo Jones .
March 31 –
Hamlet is played aboard the
East India Company ship Red Dragon , commanded by Capt.
William Keeling .
April – Performances of
George Chapman 's play
The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron by the
Children of the Chapel at the
Blackfriars Theatre in London are suppressed after the French Ambassador complains to
King James .
[2] After June the play is published with the offensive passages suppressed.
May–October –
Thomas Coryat makes a walking tour of continental Europe.
[3]
June 12 –
August 19 –
Juan Ruiz de Alarcón returns to Mexico from Spain, to take up an academic post.
June 19 –
Thomas Overbury is knighted.
August –
Richard Burbage with fellow members of the
King's Men (playing company) , including Shakespeare, take direct control of the indoor
Blackfriars Theatre in London as a winter playhouse, also taking over the plays and playwrights previously presented there by the
Children of the Chapel .
unknown dates
New books
Prose
Drama
Poetry
Births
Deaths
January 28 –
Enrique Henríquez , Portuguese Jesuit theologian (born
1536 )
February 16 –
Nicolas Rapin , French translator, poet and satirist (born
1535 )
February 26
March 29 –
Laurence Tomson , English theologian (born
1539 )
[8]
April 19 –
Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset , statesman and poet (born
1536 )
[9]
June 19
July 26 –
Pablo de Céspedes , Spanish poet and artist (born
1538 )
September –
Mary Shakespeare , English mother of Shakespeare (born c. 1540)
October 19
before December –
George Bannatyne , Scottish collector of Scottish poems (born
1545 )
[10]
Unknown date –
Nicolas de Montreux , French novelist, poet and dramatist (born c. 1561)
Probable year –
Jean Vauquelin de la Fresnaye , French poet (born
1536 )
References
^ Logan, Terence P.; Smith, Denzell S., eds. (1977). The New Intellectuals: A Survey and Bibliography of Recent Studies in English Renaissance Drama . Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. p. 78.
^ Williams, Hywel (2005).
Cassell's Chronology of World History . London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp.
238–243 .
ISBN
0-304-35730-8 .
^
Coryat's Crudities : Hastily gobled up in Five Moneth's Travels (1611).
^ Walter H. Burgess (February 23, 2009).
John Robinson, Pastor of the Pilgrim Fathers: A Study of His Life and Times . Wipf and Stock Publishers. p. 112.
ISBN
978-1-60608-513-4 .
^ Gregorio F. Zaide (1947).
Philippine History for Catholic High Schools . Modern Book Company. p. 144.
^ Robert Crawford (January 30, 2009).
Scotland's Books: A History of Scottish Literature . Oxford University Press, USA. p. 186.
ISBN
978-0-19-538623-3 .
^
Kozlenko, William , ed. Disputed Plays of William Shakespeare. Hawthorn Books, 1974.
^
"Tomson, Laurence" .
Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
^
"Sackville, Thomas" .
Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
^ George Bannatyne (1829).
Memorials of George Bannatyne, 1545-1608 . Ballantyne. p. 9.