New Drama
- Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher - A King and No King
- George Chapman - May Day published
- John Cooke (?) - Greene's Tu Quoque
- Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton - The Roaring Girl published
- Thomas Dekker - If This Be Not a Good Play, the Devil Is In It
- Thomas Heywood - The Golden Age published
- Ben Jonson
- Oberon, the Faery Prince
- Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly
- Johannes Messenius - Disa
- Anthony Munday - Chryso-Thriambos
- Thomas Middleton (attributed to) - The Second Maiden's Tragedy
- William Shakespeare - The Tempest (consensus date)
- Cyril Tourneur - The Atheist's Tragedy published
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