• c. February – The
Shakespeare play
Titus Andronicus is the first to be published, anonymously in London. His poem
The Rape of Lucrece is published after May. • Spring – The London theaters reopen after two years of general inactivity due to the
bubonic plague epidemic of 1592–94. Many actors who used to be
Lord Strange's Men form a new company, the
Lord Chamberlain's Men, under the patronage of
Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon,
Lord Chamberlain of England at the time. •
April 6 and
April 9 – Members of
Queen Elizabeth's Men and Sussex's Men perform the early
King Leir at
the Rose Theatre in London. •
May 14 – The reorganized
Admiral's Men begin performances with
Christopher Marlowe's
The Jew of Malta. • October – The first firmly recorded performance of
Marlowe's
The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus is given by the Admiral's Men with
Edward Alleyn in the title role. • Christmas – Students of
Gray's Inn in London perform
The Maske of Proteus and the Adamantine Rock before
Queen Elizabeth. Written by Francis Davison with music by
Thomas Campion, it is probably the first staged
masque in England. •
December 28 – Shakespeare's
The Comedy of Errors is performed at Gray's Inn. •
unknown date –
Franciscus Gomarus becomes professor of theology at
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