1602 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1602.Events
Prose
- Tommaso Campanella – The City of the Sun
- Thomas Campion – Observations in the Art of English Poetry
- Richard Carew – A Survey of Cornwall
- Sir Hugh Plat – Delightes for Ladies
Drama
- Anonymous – A Larum for London, or The Siedge of Antwerpe with the actes and valorous deeds of the lame soldier published
- Henry Chettle – Hoffmann
- John Davies of Hereford – Mirum in Modum
- Thomas Dekker – Blurt, Master Constable, or The Spaniards Night-Walke published
- Ben Jonson – The Poetaster published
- Sir David Lyndsay – Humanity and Sensuality and A Satire of the Three Estates published
- John Marston – Antonio and Mellida published
- William Shakespeare – Hamlet performed, The Merry Wives of Windsor published
- "W.S." – Thomas Lord Cromwell published
Poetry
- Giambattista Marino – Le Rime
- Cristóbal de Virués – El Monserrate segundo
Births
- March 29 – John Lightfoot, English theologian
- April 30 – Robert Baillie, Scottish divine and historian
- May 2 – Athanasius Kircher, German scholar
- May 10 – Samuel Newman, American Biblical commentator
- October or November – Dudley North, English poet, writer and politician
- Unknown date – Juan Pérez de Montalbán, Spanish dramatist and poet
- Approximate year – Owen Feltham, English essayist
Deaths
- February 13 – Alexander Nowell, English theologian
- September 14 – Jean Passerat, French poet and satirist
- October 13 – Franciscus Junius, Swiss theologian
- October 30 – Jean-Jacques Boissard, French poet
- Unknown date – Jean Pithou, French legal writer
