1600 in literature

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The year 1600 in literature involved some significant events.

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On January 1, the Admiral's Men perform Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday at Court.
On Thursday, March 6, George Carey, Lord Hunsdon, the Lord Chamberlain of England, entertains the Flemish ambassador Ludowic Verreyken at Hunsdon House in the Blackfriars district of London. The entertainment includes a performance of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 by the Lord Chamberlain's Men.
Juan Ruiz de Alarcón begins his studies at the University of Salamanca.
Tirso de Molina joins the Order of Mercy.
Hortensio Félix Paravicino joins the Trinitarian Order.
Robert Shirley returns from Persia.
Philip Henslowe lends William Haughton ten shillings "to release him out of the Clink".
In September, Richard Burbage leases the disused Blackfriars Theatre to Henry Evans and Nathaniel Giles for £40 per year. Evans and Giles use the space for the performances of the Children of the Chapel. Giles drafts Solomon Pavy, age ten, into his acting troupe.
The last performances of the Chester miracle plays occur in 1600.

Anonymous (Thomas Heywood and others?) - Edward IV published
Anonymous - The Maid's Metamorphosis
Anonymous - The Weakest Goeth to the Wall published
Anonymous - The Wisdom of Doctor Dodypoll
Henry Chettle & John Day - The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green, Part 1 (Parts 2 and 3, by Day and William Haughton, lost)
Thomas Dekker - Old Fortunatus
Thomas Heywood - Edward IV, Parts 1 and 2 published
Ben Jonson - Cynthia's Revels
Thomas Dekker, John Marston, and William Haughton - The Spanish Moor's Tragedy
John Marston - Jack Drum's Entertainment
Thomas Nashe - Summer's Last Will and Testament published
William Shakespeare - Henry IV, Part 2, The Merchant of Venice, Henry V, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Much Ado About Nothing published

England's Helicon (anthology) - including work by Edmund Spenser, Michael Drayton, Thomas Lodge, Philip Sidney and others
Gervase Markham - The Tears of the Beloved
Thomas Middleton - The Ghost of Lucrece

January 17 - Pedro Calderón de la Barca, dramatist
February 2 - Gabriel Naudé, librarian and scholar
November 19 - Leo Aitzema, historian
date unknown
- Marin le Roy de Gomberville, poet and novelist
- Adriaan Vlacq, publisher
- Brian Walton, compiler of "Polyglot Bible"
probable
- Piaras Feiritéar, poet
- Richard Flecknoe, dramatist and poet

November 3 - Richard Hooker, theologian
date unknown
- Bâkî, poet
- Thomas Deloney, novelist and balladist
- Balthasar Russow, chronicler
- Mustafa Selaniki, chronicler
probable
- Robert Garnier, poet
- Thomas Nashe, satirist and pamphleteer
- Robert Wilson, dramatistfr:1600 en littérature

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