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EVENTS

NEW BOOKS

Thomas Coryat - '' Coryat's Crudities hastily gobbled up in Five Months Travels in France, Italy, &c''

John Donne - ''An Anatomy of the World''

King James Version Of The Bible

NEW DRAMA

Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton - ''The Roaring Girle''

Ben Jonson - ''Catiline His Conspiracy''

William Shakespeare - '' The Tempest ''

BIRTHS

September 1 - William Cartwright , dramatist

October 26 - Antonio Coello , dramatist and poet

''date unknown'' - Richard Alleine , religious writer

''date unknown'' - Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy , writer on art

''date unknown'' - Thomas Urquhart , translator

''probable'' - Jean François Sarrazin , satirist

DEATHS

June 8 - Jean Bertaut , poet

September 22 - Pedro De Ribadeneira , ecclesiastical historian

''date unknown'' - Benet Canfield , mystical writer

''date unknown'' - Jan Huyghen Van Linschoten , historian

''date unknown'' - Martin Ruland the younger, alchemist and editor of his father's writings