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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1608.
Benjamin Jonson was an English playwright and poet. Jonson's artistry exerted a lasting influence on English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours; he is best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone, or The Fox, The Alchemist (1610) and Bartholomew Fair (1614) and for his lyric and epigrammatic poetry. He is regarded as "the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, during the reign of James I."
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1638.
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1634.
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1632.
This article is a summary of the literary events and publications of 1631.
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1625.
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1618.
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1613.
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1612.
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1611.
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1607.
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1606.
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1605.
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1601.
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1600.
George Chapman was an English dramatist, translator and poet. He was a classical scholar whose work shows the influence of Stoicism. William Minto speculated that Chapman is the unnamed Rival Poet of Shakespeare's sonnets. Chapman is seen as an anticipator of the metaphysical poets of the 17th century. He is best remembered for his translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and the Homeric Batrachomyomachia.
John Marston was an English playwright, poet and satirist during the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods. His career as a writer lasted only a decade. His work is remembered for its energetic and often obscure style, its contributions to the development of a distinctively Jacobean style in poetry, and its idiosyncratic vocabulary.
George Eld was a London printer of the Jacobean era, who produced important works of English Renaissance drama and literature, including key texts by William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, and Thomas Middleton.
Events from the 1590s in England.
Events from the 1600s in England. This decade marks the end of the Elizabethan era with the beginning of the Jacobean era and the Stuart period.