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January 1 – The Admiral's Men perform Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday at the English Court. [1]January 8 – Carpenter Peter Street is contracted to build the Fortune Playhouse just north of the City of London by theatrical manager Philip Henslowe and his stepson-in-law, the leading actor Edward Alleyn, for the Admiral's Men, who move there from The Rose by the end of the year.
Braille published his book "procedure for writing words, music, and plainsong in dots", in 1829. [71] In 1854 France made Braille the "official communication system for blind individuals". [ 69 ] Valentin Haüy was the first person to put Braille on paper in the form of a book. [ 70 ]
1600s; 1610s; 1620s; 1630s; 1640s; 1650s; Subcategories. This category has the following 12 subcategories, out of 12 total. 0–9. 1600 in literature (2 C, 1 P ...
The English monarchy was restored when Charles II of England (above) became king in 1660.. Restoration literature is the English literature written during the historical period commonly referred to as the English Restoration (1660–1688), which corresponds to the last years of Stuart reign in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland.
Among these are the great books project including the book series Great Books of the Western World, now containing 60 volumes. In 1998 Modern Library, an American publishing company, polled its editorial board to find the best 100 novels of the 20th century: Modern Library 100 Best Novels. These attempts have been criticized for their ...
April 4 – John Lydgate's The Complaint of the Black Knight becomes the first book printed in Scotland. The earliest known printed edition of the chivalric romance Amadis de Gaula, as edited and expanded by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, is published in Castilian at Zaragoza. Elia Levita completes writing the Bovo-Bukh. 1509