Events
- May 27 – The English Parliament passes An Act to Restrain Abuses of Players, which tightens the censorship controls on public theatre performances, most notably on the question of profane oaths.
- December 26 (St. Stephen's Day) – Shakespeare's King Lear is performed at Court before King James I.
- Sir Thomas Craig becomes church procurator.
- The theatre scandal of John Day's The Isle of Gulls sends several of the young actors from the Children of the Chapel to prison for short periods of time.
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