Calendar of Literary Facts
1606
- Thomas Middleton’s The Revenger’s Tragedy is produced
- William Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra is first performed
- William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is first performed
- Thomas Dekker publishes The Seven Deadly Sinnes of London: Drawne in Seven Severall Coaches, Through the Citie Bringing the Plague with Them
- Edmund Waller is born (March 3)
- Pierre Corneille is born (June 6)
- John Lyly dies (November 30)