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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of literature during 1601. ==Events== *January 6 – The Children of the Chapel give their first theatrical performance at the English Court since 1584. This year they stage the first production of Ben Jonson's ''The Poetaster''. *January 21 – Tirso de Molina enters the monastery of San Antolín at Guadalajara, Spain. *February 7 – The Lord Chamberlain's Men stage a performance of Shakespeare's ''Richard II'' at the Globe Theatre in London. The performance is specially commissioned (at a 40-shilling bonus) by the plotters in the Earl of Essex's rebellion of the following day. The plotters hope that the play, depicting the overthrow of a reigning monarch, will influence the public mood in their favour. The plot fails. *February 17 – Actor Augustine Phillips, a member of the Lord Chamberlain's Men, is deposed by the Privy Council of England. *July – Lancelot Andrewes becomes Dean of Westminster. *Thomas Overbury meets Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, and they become firm friends. *Tommaso Campanella, imprisoned in Italy for revolutionary plotting, is judged insane and spared the death penalty. He is sentenced to life imprisonment, and begins to write ''The City of the Sun''. *Philemon Holland publishes his translation of the ''Natural History'' of Pliny the Elder. When he composes ''Othello'' in the next year of so, Shakespeare exploits the book for references, including the "Anthropophagi" and the "Pontic Sea." *Probable latest year for first performance of Shakespeare's ''Hamlet''.〔 Scholars date its writing as between 1599 and 1601.〕 The play is presented by the Lord Chamberlain's Men at the Globe Theatre in London with Richard Burbage playing Prince Hamlet and (according to theatrical tradition) the dramatist playing the Ghost. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1601 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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