This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1600.
Events
January 1 – The Admiral's Men perform Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday at the English Court. January – Carpenter Peter Street is contracted to build the Fortune Playhouse just north of the City of London by theatrical manager Philip Henslowe and his stepson-in-law, the leading actor Edward Alleyn, for the Admiral's Men, who move there from The Rose by the end of the year. March 6 – George Carey, Lord Hunsdon, the Lord Chamberlain of England, entertains the Flemish ambassador Ludowic Verreyken at Hunsdon House in the Blackfriars district of London. The entertainment includes a performance of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 by the Lord Chamberlain's Men. March 10 – Philip Henslowe lends William Haughton ten shillings "to release him out of the Clink". c. April – Publication of Ben Jonson's 1599 play Every Man out of His Humour; it goes through three editions this year. April 18 – Hortensio Félix Paravicino joins the Trinitarian Order. May – Robert Shirley returns from Persia. Whitsuntide – The last performances of the Chester miracle plays take place. June 3 – Thomas Pavier becomes a publisher in the City of London, securing the rights to the plays Captain Thomas Stukeley, Sir John Oldcastle, Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy and Shakespeare's Henry V. By August – Robert Armin succeeds Will Kempe as clown of the Lord Chamberlain's Men at the Globe Theatre in London. By September, Kempe is playing with Worcester's Men at The Rose (theatre). September – Richard Burbage leases the disused Blackfriars Theatre in London to Henry Evans and Nathaniel Giles for £40 per year. Evans and Giles use the space for the performances of the Children of the Chapel. Giles drafts Solomon Pavy, age ten, into his acting troupe. September 8 – John Marston's Jack Drum's Entertainment is entered in the Stationers' Register. It is being acted by the newly re-formed Children of Paul's. The character of Brabant Senior represents Ben Jonson, thus continuing London's War of the Theatres. Jonson responds with Cynthia's Revels, acted by the Children of the Chapel at the Blackfriars Theatre (and over Christmas at Court, but without success there). October 18 – Juan Ruiz de Alarcón begins his legal studies at the University of Salamanca. November 4 – Tirso de Molina joins the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy. By end – The Admiral's Men are playing at Edward Alleyn and Philip Henslowe's new Fortune Playhouse just north of the City of London. Biblioteca Riccardiana established in Florence.
New books
Prose
Robert Armin (as "Clonnico de Curtanio Snuffe") – Fool Upon Fool
William Camden (anonymously) – Reges, reginae, nobiles et alii in ecclesia collegiata B. Petri Westmonasterii sepulti (tombs and epitaph of Westminster Abbey) Fabritio Caroso – Nobiltà de dame Olivier de Serres – Théâtre d'agriculture Lope de Vega – Romancero general William Gilbert and Aaron Dowling – De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure Philemon Holland – The Romane Historie (translation of Livy's Ab Urbe Condita) Aonio Paleario (executed 1570) – Actio in pontifices romanos et eorum asseclas Samuel Rowlands – The Letting of Humour's Blood in the Head-vaine with A Mery Meetinge, or tis Mery when Knaves mete
Drama
Anonymous
Look About You (published) The Maid's Metamorphosis Sir John Oldcastle (published) The Weakest Goeth to the Wall (published) The Wisdom of Doctor Dodypoll Henry Chettle & John Day – The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green, Part 1 (Parts 2 and 3, by Day and William Haughton, lost) Georgios Chortatzis – Erofili (approximate year) Lope de Vega – year of some approximate La campana de Aragón El castigo del discreto La imperial de Otón El postrer godo de España La quinta de Florencia Roma abrasada La viuda valenciana (The Widow from Valencia) Thomas Dekker – Old Fortunatus (published) Thomas Dekker and others (probable) – Lust's Dominion (approximate date) Thomas Dekker, John Marston, and William Haughton – The Spanish Moor's Tragedy (possibly same as Lust's Dominion) Thomas Heywood – Edward IV, Parts 1 and 2 published Thomas Heywood (attrib.) and others? – Edward IV (published) Ben Jonson – Cynthia's Revels John Marston – Jack Drum's Entertainment Thomas Nashe – Summer's Last Will and Testament (published) William Shakespeare – Henry IV, Part 2, The Merchant of Venice, Henry V, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Much Ado About Nothing (published)