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| 1601 |
| | Shakespeare's central character in Hamlet expresses both the ideals of the Renaissance and the disillusion of a less confident age | |
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| 1604 |
| | James I commissions the Authorized version of the Bible, which is completed by forty-seven scholars in seven years | |
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| 1605 |
| | Ben Jonson writes The Masque of Blackness, the first of his many masques for the court of James I | |
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| 1606 |
| | The satirical voice of the English playwright Ben Jonson is heard to powerful effect in Volpone | |
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| 1609 |
| | Shakespeare's sonnets, written ten years previously, are published | |
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| c. 1611 |
| | Shakespeare's last completed play, The Tempest, is performed | |
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| 1616 |
| | John Smith publishes A Description of New England, an account of his exploration of the region in 1614 | |
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| 1620 |
| | William Bradford begins a journal of the Pilgrims' experience in New England, subsequently published (in 1856) as History of Plymouth Plantation | |
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| 1621 |
| | John Donne, England's leading Metaphysical poet, becomes dean of St Paul's | |
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| 1623 |
| | John Heminge and Henry Condell publish thirty-six Shakespeare plays in the First Folio | |
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