1607 in literature

The year 1607 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

• February 2 – The King's Men perform Barnes's The Devil's Charter at the English Court.
• June 5 – John Hall marries Susanna, daughter of William Shakespeare.
• September 5 – Hamlet is performed aboard the East India Company ship Red Dragon, under the command of Capt. William Keeling, anchored off the coast of Sierra Leone, the first known performance of a Shakespeare play outside England, and the first by amateurs.
• September 30 – Richard II is acted aboard the Red Dragon.

New books

• William Alabaster – Apparatus in Revelationem Jesu Christi
• John Cowell – The Interpreter (suppressed by the English House of Commons for excessive royalism)
• Thomas Dekker – The Seven Deadly Sins of London
• Michael Drayton – The Legend of Great Cromwell
• Edward Grimeston – A General Inventory of the History of France
• Antoine Loysel - Institutes coutumières
• César Oudin - Thrésor des deux langues françoise et espagnole
• Lawrence Twine – The Pattern of Painful Adventures, second edition; a source for Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre
• Honoré d'Urfé – L'Astrée (part 1)

New drama

• William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling – The Monarchic Tragedies, second edition; adds The Alexandrean and Julius Caesar to his previously-published closet dramas Croesus and Darius
• Anonymous – Claudius Tiberius Nero
• Anonymous – The Fair Maid of the Exchange published
• Barnabe Barnes – The Devil's Charter
• Francis Beaumont – The Knight of the Burning Pestle
• Beaumont and Fletcher – The Woman Hater published; the earliest of their collaborations to appear in print
• Thomas Campion – Lord Hay's Masque
• George Chapman – Bussy D'Ambois published
• John Day, William Rowley, & George Wilkins – The Travels of the Three English Brothers
• Thomas Dekker – The Whore of Babylon
• Thomas Dekker and John Webster – Westward Ho and Northward Ho published
• Dekker & Webster, with Henry Chettle (?), Thomas Heywood (?), & Wentworth Smith (?) – Sir Thomas Wyatt published
• Thomas Heywood – The Fair Maid of the Exchange published
• Ben Jonson – Volpone published
• Thomas Middleton – Michaelmas Term performed; The Phoenix published
• Edward Sharpham -Cupid's Whirligig
• Thomas Tomkis – Lingua published
• Thomas Middleton – The Revenger's Tragedy published
• George Wilkins – The Miseries of Enforced Marriage published

Births

• March 8 – Johann von Rist, German poet (died 1667)
• July 10 – Philippe Labbe, Jesuit writer (died 1667)
• November 1 – Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet and translator (died 1658)
• November 5 – Anna Maria van Schurman, Dutch poet (died 1678)
• November 15 – Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (died 1701)
• date unknown
  • Alaol, Bengali poet (died 1680)
  • Antoine Gombaud, French essayist (died 1684)
  • Filadelfo Mugnos, Italian historian (died 1675)
  • Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, Spanish dramatist (died c. 1660)

Deaths

• January 6 – Guidobaldo del Monte, philosopher (born 1545)
• May – Sir Edward Dyer, poet (born 1543)
• June 19 – Johannes Bertelius, historian of Luxembourg (born 1544)
• June 30 – Caesar Baronius, ecclesiastical historian (born 1538)
• July 6 – Achille Gagliardi, Italian theologian (born 1537)
• October 31 - Wawrzyniec Grzymała Goślicki, Polish philosopher (born c.1540)
• date unknown
  • Cuthbert Burby, publisher and bookseller
  • Dinko Ranjina, Croatian poet (born 1536)
• probable – Henry Chettle, dramatist (born c. 1564)