1608 in literature

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The year 1608 in literature involved some significant events.

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Henry Ainsworth publishes a response to Richard Bernard's The Separatist Schisme.
Thomas Overbury is knighted.
Juan Ruiz de Alarcón returns to Mexico from Spain, to take up an academic post.
Arthur Johnston goes to Italy to study at Padua.
The Morgan Bible is given by Cardinal Bernard Maciejowski, Bishop of Cracow, to Abbas I (Shah of Persia).
Thomas Coryat begins his walking tour of Europe.
On March 31, Hamlet is performed aboard the East India Company ship Red Dragon, under the command of Capt. William Keeling.

George Abbot - A Brief Description of the Whole World
Robert Armin - A Nest of Ninnies
Thomas Dekker - The Dead Term
Thomas Dekker - The Bellman of London
Mathurin Régnier - Les Premieres d'Euvres ou Satyres de Regnier
"P. F." - The History of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Doctor John Faustus

Anonymous - The Merry Devil of Edmonton; has been attributed to William Shakespeare, Michael Drayton, and others
Anonymous - A Yorkshire Tragedy; attributed to Thomas Middleton, or George Wilkins
Lording Barry - Ram Alley published
George Chapman - The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron
John Day - Humour Out of Breath and Law Tricks published
Thomas Heywood - The Rape of Lucrece published
Ben Jonson - The Masque of Beauty performed, and published with The Masque of Blackness; The Hue and Cry After Cupid performed, and (likely) published
Henry Machin & Gervase Markham - The Dumb Knight
Thomas Middleton - The Family of Love, A Mad World, My Masters, and A Trick to Catch the Old One published
John Sansbury - Periander
William Shakespeare - King Lear published

February 16 - Nicolas Rapin, translator, poet and satirist (born 1535)
February 26
- Thomas Craig, poet (born c1538)
- John Still, bishop, formerly credited with authorship of Gammer Gurton's Needle (born c1543)
April 19 - Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, statesman and poet (born 1536)
June 19 - Alberico Gentili, legal writer (born 1552)
October 19
- Martin Delrio, theologian (born 1551)
- Geoffrey Fenton, writer and politician (born c1539)
date unknown - Mary Arden, mother of Shakespeare (born c1540)
date unknown - George Bannatyne, collector of Scottish poems (born 1545)
date unknown - Pablo de Céspedes, poet and artist (born 1538)
date unknown - Nicolas de Montreux, novelist, poet and dramatist (born c1561)
date unknown - Laurence Tomson, Calvinist theologian (born 1539)
date unknown - Jean Vauquelin de la Fresnaye, poet (born 1536)