New Drama
- Anonymous – The Return from Parnassus (published)
- Anonymous – Wily Beguiled (published)
- Anonymous (probably Thomas Middleton) – The Revenger's Tragedy
- George Chapman (attributed to) – Sir Giles Goosecap (published)
- The Gentleman Usher (published)
- Monsieur D'Olive (published)
- John Day – The Isle of Gulls
- Ben Jonson – Volpone; Hymenaei
- John Marston – The Wonder of Women, or the Tragedy of Sophonisba; Parasitaster, or The Fawn (published)
- Thomas Middleton – The Puritan
- William Shakespeare – Macbeth (possible first performance); King Lear (first recorded performance)
- Edward Sharpham – The Fleir
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