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EVENTS
The ''
Sea Venture
'' is wrecked in Bermuda - thought to be the inspiration for Shakespeare's ''
The Tempest
''.
William Ames
delivers a controversial sermon on St Thomas's Day.
Samuel Daniel
completes the eighth and last book of his epic poem, ''Civil Wars''.
Jacques Auguste De Thou
's ''Historia sui temporis'' is placed on the ''
Index Librorum Prohibitorum
''.
The ''Sala Fredericiana'', the first reading room of the
Biblioteca Ambrosiana
in Milan, opens to the public.
Francis Tregian is imprisoned for his Catholic sympathies, and begins copying out the
Fitzwilliam Virginal Book
.
NEW BOOKS
Douai Bible
Thomas Middleton
- ''Sir
Robert Sherley
his Entertainmnt in Cracovia'' (translation)
Thomas Dekker
- ''Fourre Birds of Noahs Arke'' and ''The Gul's Hornebooke''
NEW DRAMA
William Shakespeare
- ''
The Winter's Tale
''
BIRTHS
February 10
- Sir
John Suckling
, poet
February 18
-
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon
, historian
August 19
-
Jean Rotrou
, dramatist
October 5
-
Paul Fleming
, poet
December 24
-
Philip Warwick
, politician and memoirist
''date unknown'' -
Gerrard Winstanley
, political writer
''probable'' -
Gauthier De Costes, Seigneur De La Calprenède
, novelist and dramatist
DEATHS
January 21
-
Joseph Justus Scaliger
, French Protestant writer
March 9
-
William Warner
, poet
August 22
-
Judah Loew Ben Bezalel
, Jewish mystic and philosopher
October 19
-
Jacobus Arminius
, theologian
December 4
-
Alexander Hume
, poet
December
-
Barnabe Barnes
, poet
''probable'' -
Mateo Alemán
, Spanish novelist and man of letters