page_title: 1605 in literature
section_title: Events
hierarchical_section_title: 1605 in literature / Events
caption_attribution_description: Español: Portada de la primera edición de la primera parte de El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha, libro de Miguel de Cervantes. Publicado en Madrid, en 1605, en la imprenta de Juan de la Cuesta. Texto: EL INGENIOSO HIDALGO DON QVIXOTE DE LA MANCHA, Compueſto por Miguel de Ceruantes Saauedra DIRIGIDO AL DVQVE DE BEIAR, Marques de Gibraleon, Conde de Benalcaçar, y Bañares, Vizconde de la Puebla de Alcozer, Señor de las villas de Capilla, Curiel, y Burguillos. Año, 1605. CON PRIVILEGIO, EN MADRID, Por Iuan de la Cueſta. Vendeſe en caſa de Franciſco de Robles, librero del Rey nr̃o. ſeñor. Iconografía: El escudo del impresor muestra un halcón de cetrería, un león dormido y la divisa «Post tenebras spero lucem» (Espero la luz después de las tinieblas). &#91;1&#93;
context_section_description: January 1 – The Queen's Revels Children perform George Chapman's All Fools at the court of King James I of England.
  January 6 – At the first performance of The Masque of Blackness at the Banqueting Hall, Whitehall Palace, the cast includes Penelope Rich and Lady Mary Wroth.
  January 7 – The King's Men perform Shakespeare's Henry V at court.
  January 8 – Ben Jonson's Every Man Out of His Humour is performed at court by the King's Men.
  January – the King's Men perform Love's Labour's Lost before Queen Anne.
  January 16 – The first part of Miguel de Cervantes' satire on chivalry, Don Quixote (El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha, "The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha"), claimed to be translated from Arabic by Cide Hamete Benengeli into dialects of Old Spanish, and printed by Juan de la Cuesta in 1604, is published by Francisco de Robles in Madrid. Most of the first edition is shipped to Spanish America. One of the first significant novels in western literary tradition, it becomes a global bestseller almost at once and new editions, authorized and pirated, are produced across the Iberian Peninsula by the end of the year.
  February 2 – The King's Men give a repeat performance of Ben Jonson's Every Man in His Humour at court.
  February 10 and February 12 – Performances of The Merchant of Venice are given at court.
  May 30 – John Spottiswoode becomes a member of the Scottish privy council.
  August 27–August 30 – King James I, Queen Anne, and their son Prince Henry visit the University of Oxford. Gentlemen from St John's and Christ Church colleges entertain them with a series of plays, including (at the latter) an early example of perspective scenery. The big success is Samuel Daniel's The Queen's Arcadia. Matthew Gwinne's Latin play Vertumnus puts James to sleep.
  October – Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien by Johann Carolus in Strasbourg (Holy Roman Empire) first appears. It is generally regarded as the world's first newspaper. De Nieuwe Tijdinghen, a Dutch proto-newspaper, is perhaps also published this year.
  Uncertain dates
  Richard Rowlands publishes A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence in Antiquities concerning the most noble and renowned English Nation in Antwerp, including the first English-language telling of the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin.
  Luis de Góngora has some poems published in an anthology.
  The Rose theatre in London is abandoned after its lease runs out.
caption: Don Quixote 1st ed. title page
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