New Drama
- Henry Burnell - Landgartha
- Pierre Corneille - Horace
- William Davenant – Salmacida Spolia
- John Fletcher & James Shirley - The Night Walker (published)
- Henry Glapthorne - The Hollander, Wit in a Constable, and The Ladies' Privilege (published)
- John Gough - The Strange Discovery
- William Habington - The Queen of Arragon
- Samuel Harding - Sicily and Naples
- Jean Mairet - L’Illustre corsaire
- Nathaniel Richards - Messalina (published)
- Joseph Rutter- The Cid, Part 2 (published)
- George Sandys - Christ's Passion (English translation of Hugo Grotius's Christus Patiens)
- Lewis Sharpe - The Noble Stranger published
- James Shirley - The Imposture performed; a single-volume collection of eight plays published; The Arcadia, The Humorous Courtier, and Saint Patrick for Ireland published; The Coronation published but misattributed to John Fletcher
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