New Books
- William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling - The Monarchic Tragedies; includes Croesus and Darius, two closet dramas
- Thomas Dekker - News from Gravesend
- - The Meeting of Gallants at an Ordinary
- Elizabeth Grymeston - Miscellanea: prayers, meditations, memoratives
- King James I - A Counterblast to Tobacco
- Christopher Marlowe - Doctor Faustus (first quarto - the "A text")
- Samuel Rowlands - Look to It for I'll Stab Ye
- John Stow - Revised edition of Summarie of Englyshe Chronicles
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