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1603 poetry literature
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Events
March 24 – Queen Elizabeth I of England dies at Richmond Palace, ending the Elizabethan era begun in 1558, and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland (where he has ruled since 1567), thus uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 Ben Jonson and Thomas Dekker collaborate on a pageant to welcome the new king.
November 17 – Sir Walter Ralegh goes on trial for treason in the converted Great Hall of Winchester Castle. He is found guilty but his life is spared by King James I at this time and he is returned to imprisonment in the Tower of London.
Works
Great Britain
Henry Chettle, Englandes Mourning Garment, on the death of Queen ElizabethCox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm
Juan de la Cueva, La Conquista de Betica, (Spain)
Samuel Daniel, A Panegyrike Congratulatory Delivered to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty ... With a Defence of Ryme, written in answer to Thomas Campion's Observations on the Art of English Posie 1602
John Davies of Hereford, Microcosmos
John Dowland, The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires (First Booke, 1597; Second Booke, 1600)
Michael Drayton, The Barrons Wars in the Raigne of Edward the Second
Joseph Hall, The Kings Prophecie; or, Weeping Joy
King James I of England, His Majesties Lepanto: or, Heroicall Song (first published in 1591)
Elizabeth Melville, later Lady Colville of Culros, Ane Godlie Dreame, in Scottish, English version published in 1604 as A Godly Dreame
Thomas Newton, Atropoion Delion; or, The Death of Delia
Samuel Rowlands, Ave Caesar: God Save the King
Other
Juan de la Cueva, La Conquista de Betica, Spain
Births
July 12 – Edward Benlowes, English (died 1676)
Also:
Gabriel Bocángel (died 1658), Spanish playwright and poet
Pierre de Boissat (died 1662), French soldier, writer, poet and translator
Gysbert Japiks (died 1666), Frisian writer, poet, schoolteacher and cantor
Deaths
July 22 – Łukasz Górnicki, (born 1527), Polish humanist, writer, poet, secretary and chancellor of Sigismund August of Poland
Also:
Dadu Dayal (born 1544), Indian Sant Mat, poet, and philosopher
Emir Sharaf Khan Bidlisi (born 1543), Iranian Kurdish historian, writer and poet
See also
17th century in poetry
17th century in literature
Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature
Elizabethan literature
English Madrigal School
French Renaissance literature
Renaissance literature
Spanish Renaissance literature
University Wits
Notes
Category:17th-century poetry
Poetry