1602 in literature

none 1602 literature July 2020 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1602. Events February 2 – The Lord Chamberlain's Men perform Twelfth Night at the Middle Temple in London. May – Henry Wotton returns to Florence having disclosed a plot to murder King James VI of Scotland.Wotton, Henry Lee Sidney Sidney Lee 63 May 4 – Richard Hakluyt is installed as prebendary of Westminster Abbey.Richard S. Westfall Hakluyt, Richard http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/hakluyt.html The Galileo Project 1995 21 April 2007 November 8 – The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford opens to scholars. November 22 – Samuel Rowley and William Bird(e) (or Borne) are paid by the Admiral's Men for additions to Christopher Marlowe's play Doctor Faustus. New books Prose Tommaso Campanella – The City of the Sun (La città del sole, a philosophical work, one of the most important utopias) Thomas Campion – Observations in the Art of English Poetry Richard Carew – A Survey of Cornwall Cipriano de Valera (rev.) – 'Reina-Valera' (Spanish translation of the Bible) Sir Hugh Plat – Delightes for Ladies (book of recipes and household hints) Drama Anonymous – A Larum for London, or The Siedge of Antwerpe with the ventrous actes and valorous deeds of the lame soldier published Henry Chettle – Hoffmann John Davies of Hereford – Mirum in Modum Thomas Dekker (with Thomas Middleton?) – Blurt, Master Constable, or The Spaniards Night-Walke published Ben Jonson – The Poetaster published Sir David Lyndsay (died c. 1555) – Humanity and Sensuality and A Satire of the Three Estates published John Marston – Antonio and Mellida published William Percy – A Country Tragaedye in Vacunium and The Aphrodysial, or, Sea-Feast: a Marinall (approximate date) William Shakespeare – Hamlet performed (latest date), The Merry Wives of Windsor published, Troilus and Cressida probable completion date "W.S." – Thomas Lord Cromwell publishedShakespeare, William Collaborative Plays The RSC Shakespeare Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan 2013 978-1-137-27144-0 etal Poetry 1602 in poetry Giambattista Marino – Le Rime Cristóbal de Virués – El Monserrate segundo Births March 29 – John Lightfoot, English theologian (died 1675) April 30 – Robert Baillie, Scottish divine and historian (died 1662) May 2 – Athanasius Kircher, German scholar (died 1680) May 10 – Samuel Newman, American Biblical commentator (died 1663) October or November – Dudley North, English poet, writer and politician (died 1677) Unknown date – Juan Pérez de Montalbán, Spanish dramatist and poet (died 1638) Approximate year – Owen Feltham, English essayist (died 1668) Deaths February 13 – Alexander Nowell, English theologian (born c. 1507) September 14 – Jean Passerat, French poet and satirist (born 1534) October 13 – Franciscus Junius (the elder), Swiss theologian (born 1545) October 30 – Jean-Jacques Boissard, French poet (born 1528) Unknown date – Jean Pithou, French legal writer (born 1534) References