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Overview of the events of 1613 in literature
Overview of the events of 1613 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1613 .
Events
January–February – The English royal court sees massive celebrations for the marriage of
Frederick V, Elector Palatine , to
King James 's daughter
Princess Elizabeth , culminating in their wedding on
February 14 .
During court festivities in the winter of 1612–1613, the
King's Men give twenty performances, which include eight Shakespeare plays, four by
Beaumont and Fletcher , and the lost
Cardenio .
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Early January – The
Children of the Queen's Revels give two performances of Beaumont and Fletcher's
Cupid's Revenge .
January 11 – The English
playing company that had been the
Admiral's Men , then Prince Henry's Men, becomes the Elector Palatine's (or Palsgrave's) Men.
[2]
February 15 –
The Memorable Masque of the Middle Temple and Lincoln's Inn , written by
George Chapman and designed by
Inigo Jones , is staged in the Great Hall of the
Palace of Whitehall .
[3]
Francis Beaumont 's
The Masque of the Inner Temple and Gray's Inn follows five days later on
February 20 .
[4]
February 25 – The
Lady Elizabeth's Men perform
Marston 's
The Dutch Courtesan at Court. (They repeat it at the end of the year, on December 12.)
February 27 – The Queen's Revels Children act
Chapman 's
The Widow's Tears .
[5]
Early March – Frederick and
Prince Charles visit the
University of Cambridge , where they see performances of
Samuel Brooke 's Latin plays Adelphe and Scyros .
June 5
Cyril Tourneur is commissioned by
Robert Daborne to write one act of the play The Arraignment of London in order to help meet a deadline.
[6] Later in the year, Tourneur is paid £10 for delivering letters from the
Stuart monarchy to Brussels.
The English poet
Francis Quarles attends the newly married Queen on her progress to Continental Europe.
June 8 – The King's Men re-play
Cardenio at Court.
June 29 – The
Globe Theatre in London burns down during a performance of
Henry VIII .
unknown date –
Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland 's
closet drama
The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry (written 1602–1604) is published in London as the first original dramatic work in English known to have been published by a woman and acknowledged as such ("Written by that learned, vertuous, and truly noble Ladie, E. C.").
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New books
Prose
Drama
Poetry
Births
Deaths
January 28 – Sir
Thomas Bodley , English founder of the
Bodleian Library (born
1545 )
February 16 –
Mikalojus Daukša ,
Lithuanian religious writer and translator (born c. 1527)
August 18 –
Giovanni Artusi , Italian music theorist (born c. 1540)
August 21 –
Natshinnaung ,
Toungoo prince, poet and musician (executed, born
1578 )
August 26 –
George Owen , Welsh antiquarian (born
1552 )
September 15 – Sir
Thomas Overbury , English poet and essayist (probably poisoned, born
1581 )
October 9 –
Henry Constable , English Catholic polemicist and poet (born
1562 )
October 22 –
Mathurin Régnier , French satirist (born
1573 )
November 16 –
Trajano Boccalini , Italian satirist (born
1556 )
References