New Drama
- 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 published)
- Henry Machin & Gervase Markham – The Dumb Knight
- The Merry Devil of Edmonton (attributed to William Shakespeare, Michael Drayton, and others)
- Thomas Middleton
- The Family of Love, A Mad World, My Masters, and A Trick to Catch the Old One (published)
- A Yorkshire Tragedy (attributed)
- John Sansbury – Periander
- William Shakespeare – King Lear (published)
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