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Events
- On September 22, Ben Jonson is charged with manslaughter, after killing actor Gabriel Spenser in a duel.
- Lancelot Andrewes turns down the bishoprics of both Ely and Salisbury.
- Lope de Vega marries Juana de Guardo.
- The year sees a burst of satirical writing, especially from John Marston; the excesses would lead to an official suppression in the following year.
New books
- John Bodenham - Politeuphuia (Wits' Commonwealth)
- King James VI of Scotland - The Trew Law of Free Monarchies
- Francis Meres - Palladis Tamia, Wits Treasury
- John Stow - Survey of London
New drama
- Anonymous - Mucedorus published
- Samuel Brandon - Virtuous Octavia
- Henry Chettle, Henry Porter & Ben Jonson - Hot Anger Soon Cold
- Robert Greene - The Scottish History of James IV published
- William Haughton - Englishmen for My Money
- Ben Jonson - Every Man in His Humour
- Anthony Munday - The Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntingdon
- Anthony Munday (& Henry Chettle?) - The Death of Robert Earl of Huntingdon
- Henry Porter - Love Prevented
- William Shakespeare - Henry IV, Part 1 and Love's Labor's Lost published
Poetry
- Richard Barnfield – The Encomium of Lady Pecunia
- Lope de Vega – La Arcadia
- Lope de Vega – La Dragontea
- Christopher Marlowe – Hero and Leander (completed by George Chapman and published after Marlowe's death)
- John Marston – The Metamorphosis of Pigmalian's Image; The Scourge of Villanie
Births
- August 7 - Georg Stiernhielm, poet
Deaths
- January 9 - Jasper Heywood, translator
- December 6 - Paolo Paruta, historian
- December 15 - Philips van Marnix, lord of Sint-Aldegonde, statesman and author
- date unknown
- Friedrich Dedekind, theologian
- Jacopo Mazzoni, philosopher
- Heinrich Rantzau, humanist writer
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