June 29 – Pedro Calderón de la Barca makes his debut as a playwright, his Amor, honor y poder (Love, Honor and Power) being performed at the Spanish Court. Two other plays follow this year.
July 20 – Henry Herbert (Sir Henry from August) becomes deputy to Sir John Ashley, Master of the Revels and takes over his duties. Herbert effectively controls professional drama in England from 1623 until the theaters close in 1642.
Between November 8 and December 5 – Publication of the "First Folio" (Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies), a collection of 36 of the plays of Shakespeare, half of which have not previously been printed, compiled posthumously by actors John Heminges and Henry Condell and published by Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount in London. The first recorded purchase is on December 5, of two copies at £1 each by Sir Edward Dering.[3]
Procopius's long-lost Secret History is rediscovered in the Vatican Library.
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^Smith, George Charles Moore (1905). College Plays: Performed in the University of Cambridge. p. 3. ISBN 9781108008891. Retrieved 2015-10-16.
^Sotheby's. The Shakespeare First Folio, 1623: The Dr. Williams's Library Copy, 13 July 2006; "Three Issues" p. 26; auction catalogue research by Peter Selley and Dr. Peter Beal.
^Robin Healey (1 January 2011). Italian Literature Before 1900 in English Translation: An Annotated Bibliography, 1929-2008. University of Toronto Press. p. 70. ISBN 978-1-4426-4269-0.
^Sylvia Stoler Wagonheim (21 August 2013). The Annals of English Drama 975-1700. Routledge. p. 269. ISBN 978-1-134-67634-7.
^Filippo Mordani (1837). Vite di ravegnani illustri. Ravenna: Stampe de' Roveri. p. 165. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
^Blaise Pascal; Villemain (Abel-François, M.) (1859). The provincial letters of Blaise Pascal. Derby & Jackson. p. 18.
^"Margaret Cavendish". The British Library. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
^John G. Weiger (1976). The Valencian Dramatists of Spain's Golden Age. Twayne Publishers. p. 81. ISBN 978-0-8057-6219-8.
^Nicholas Charles (1849). Visitation of the County of Huntingdon, Under the Authority of William Camden, A.d. 1613. Ed. by Henry Ellis. Nichols. p. 15.