Events
- January 31 - The King's Men perform Shakespeare's Julius Caesar at St. James's Palace.
- February - James Shirley's The Duke's Mistress is performed at St. James's Palace.
- May 10 - London theatres close, remaining almost continuously closed until the end of the year (and on to October 1637), as a result of to a severe outbreak of bubonic plague. Playing companies are profoundly impacted; the King's Revels Men dissolve, and other companies tour the countryside to survive.
- August - King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria visit the University of Oxford. They are entertained with the usual college theatricals, including productions of William Strode's allegory The Floating Island (with music by Henry Lawes), which mocks William Prynne as the play-hating Melancholico; George Wilde's Love's Hospital; and William Cartwright's The Royal Slave (also with music by Lawes, and design by Inigo Jones). Henrietta Maria enjoys the last-named work so much that she has it brought to London and acted at Hampton Court by her own company, Queen Henrietta's Men.
- December 8 - The King's Men perform Shakespeare's Othello at Hampton Court Palace.
- Thomas Hobbes visits Florence.
- Tommaso Campanella leaves Italy for France, because of to his pro-French views; he teaches at the Sorbonne.
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