   the year 1607 in literature involved some significant events. ==events== *february 2 â the king's men perform barnes's the devil's charter at the english court. *june 5 â john hall marries susanna, daughter of william shakespeare. *september 5 â hamlet is performed aboard the east india company ship red dragon, under the command of capt. william keeling, anchored off the coast of sierra leone, the first known performance of a shakespeare play outside england in english, and the first by amateurs. *september 30 â richard ii is acted aboard the red dragon. *first performance of the first wholly parodic play in english, francis beaumont's the knight of the burning pestle, unsuccessfully, probably by child actors at the blackfriars theatre in london. ==new books== *william alabaster â apparatus in revelationem jesu christi *john cowell â the interpreter (suppressed by the english house of commons for excessive royalism) *thomas dekker â the seven deadly sins of london *michael drayton â the legend of great cromwell *edward grimeston â a general inventory of the history of france *antoine loysel â institutes coutumiÃ¨res *cÃ©sar oudin â thrÃ©sor des deux langues franÃ§oise et espagnole *lawrence twine â the pattern of painful adventures, second edition; a source for shakespeare's pericles, prince of tyre *honorÃ© d'urfÃ© â l'astrÃ©e (part 1) ==new drama== *william alexander, 1st earl of stirling â the monarchic tragedies, second edition; adds the alexandrean and julius caesar to his previously-published closet dramas croesus and darius *anonymous â claudius tiberius nero *anonymous â the fair maid of the exchange published *barnabe barnes â the devil's charter *francis beaumont â the knight of the burning pestle *beaumont and fletcher â the woman hater published; the earliest of their collaborations to appear in print *thomas campion â lord hay's masque *george chapman â bussy d'ambois published *john day, william rowley, and george wilkins â the travels of the three english brothers *thomas dekker â the whore of babylon *thomas dekker and john webster â westward ho and northward ho published *dekker & webster, with henry chettle (?), thomas heywood (?), and [[wentworth s
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