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The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.

1606 Literary Facts

Thomas Middleton’s The Revenger’s Tragedy is produced

William Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra is first performed

William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is first performed

Thomas Dekker publishes The Seven Deadly Sinnes of London: Drawne in Seven Severall Coaches, Through the Citie Bringing the Plague with Them

Edmund Waller is born

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Pierre Corneille is born

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John Lyly dies

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