1605 in literature

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The year 1605 in literature involved some significant events.

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January 1 - The Queen's Revels Children perform George Chapman's All Fools at Court.
January 6 - First performance of The Masque of Blackness at the Banqueting Hall, Whitehall Palace. The cast includes Penelope Rich and Lady Mary Wroth.
January (between the 9th and 14th) - King's Men perform Love's Labor's Lost before Queen Anne. The same company plays Shakespeare's Henry V at Court on January 7, with Jonson's Every Man Out of His Humour on January 8, and Every Man in His Humour on February 2. Performances of The Merchant of Venice follow on February 10 and 12.
Luis de Góngora is ordained as a priest.
The Rose theatre in London is abandoned.
John Spottiswoode becomes a member of the Scottish privy council.
The Red Bull Theatre is built in Clerkenwell, London.
King James I, Queen Anne, and their son Prince Henry visit Oxford University, August 27–30. Gentlemen from St. John's and Christ Church colleges entertain the royals with a series of plays. The big hit of the visit is Samuel Daniel's The Queen's Arcadia. (Matthew Gwinne's Latin play Vertumnus puts James to sleep.)

Anonymous
- The Fair Maid of Bristow (published)
- The First Part of Hieronimo (published)
- King Leir (published)
- The London Prodigal (published)
Robert Armin et al. - Fool upon Fool (published)
George Chapman, Ben Jonson & John Marston - Eastward Hoe (performed & published)
George Chapman - All Fools (published)
Henry Chettle & Thomas Heywood (?)- The Trial of Chivalry (published)
Samuel Daniel - The Queen's Arcadia
Thomas Dekker & John Webster - Northward Ho
Thomas Heywood - If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody
Ben Jonson
- The Masque of Blackness
- Sejanus (published)
John Marston - The Dutch Courtesan published
Samuel Rowley - When You See Me, You Know Me (published)

June - Thomas Randolph, poet and dramatist (died 1635)
July 29 - Simon Dach, poet (died 1659)
September 12 - William Dugdale, antiquarian author (died 1686)
October 19 - Sir Thomas Browne, non-fiction author (died 1682)
date unknown
- John Gauden, possible author of the Eikon Basilike (died 1662)
- William Habington, poet (died 1654)
- Thomas Nabbes, dramatist (died c1645)
- Sor Marcela de San Felix, illegitimate daughter of Lope de Vega (died 1687)
probable - Hugh Paulinus de Cressy, church historian (died 1674)

March 26 - Jakob Ayrer, dramatist(born c1543)
April 6 - John Stow, historian (born c1525)
May - Edward Lively, linguist (born 1545)
September 23 - Pontus de Tyard, poet (born c1521)
October 13 - Theodore Beza, Protestant theologian (born 1519)
date unknown
- William Haughton, dramatist
- Heinrich Khunrath, philosopher (born c1560)
probable - Arthur Golding, translator (born c1536)