1607 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1607.

Events

January 22 – Shortly before his death, bookseller Cuthbert Burby transfers the rights to print the text of The Taming of the Shrew to Nicholas Ling.
February 2 – The King's Men perform Barnabe Barnes's anti-Catholic tragedy The Devil's Charter at the English Court.
June 5 – Physician John Hall marries Susanna, daughter of William Shakespeare, at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon.
September 5 – Hamlet is performed aboard the East India Company ship Red Dragon, under the command of Captain 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 – Richard II is performed aboard the Dragon.
unknown dates
*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.
*The King's Revels Children are active as a playing company in London: their repertoire includes Edward Sharpham's Cupid's Whirligig and Thomas Middleton's The Family of Love.

January 6 – Guidobaldo del Monte, Italian philosopher
May – Sir Edward Dyer, English poet
June – Thomas Newton, English physician, clergyman, poet, author and translator
June 19 – Johannes Bertelius, historian of Luxembourg
June 30 – Caesar Baronius, Italian ecclesiastical historian
July 6 – Achille Gagliardi, Italian theologian
July 7 – Penelope Rich, Lady Rich, English noblewoman, inspiration for Sir Philip Sidney's "Stella"
c. September – Cuthbert Burby, English publisher and bookseller
October 31 – Wawrzyniec Grzymała Goślicki, Polish philosopher
Unknown date – Dinko Ranjina, Croatian poet