1606 in literature explained
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1606.
Events
New books
Prose
Drama
Poetry
Births
Deaths
- May 13 (burial) – Arthur Golding, English translator (born c. 1536)
- May 17 – Niccolò Orlandini, Italian Jesuit writer (born 1554)
- May 30 – Guru Arjan, Sikh Guru and compiler of scriptures (in custody, born 1563)
- September 28 – Nicolaus Taurellus, German philosopher and theologian (born 1547)
- October 5 – Philippe Desportes, French poet (born 1546)
- November 13 – Girolamo Mercuriale, Italian philologist and medical writer (born 1530)
- November 20 (burial) – John Lyly, English dramatist, poet and novelist (born c. 1553)
- November 22 – Sir Henry Billingsley, English translator (birth year unknown)
- Unknown date – Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer – Dutch cartographer (born 1533/1534)
Notes and References
- Book: 978-184831-247-0 . Love, Sex, Death & Words: surprising tales from a year in literature. John. Sutherland. John Sutherland (author) . Stephen . Fender . London . Icon . 2011 . 7 August . 297–8.
- Book: Suzanne Gossett. Thomas Middleton in Context. 21 April 2011. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-19054-1. 23.
- Book: Akihiro Yamada. Experiencing Drama in the English Renaissance: Readers and Audiences. 28 April 2017. Taylor & Francis. 978-1-351-76446-9. 160.
- Scholars date completion of these plays as between 1603 and 1606. Book: Boyce, Charles. Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare. New York. Roundtable Press. 1990.