1607 in literature

• January 22 – Shortly before his death, bookseller Cuthbert Burby transfers the rights to print the text of The Taming of the Shrew to Nicholas Ling.{{cite book|author=Dana E. Aspinall|title=The Taming of the Shrew: Critical Essays|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K3fhDlRxFvQC&pg=PA5|year=2002|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-8153-3515-3|pages=5}}
• February 2 – The King's Men perform Barnes's The Devil's Charter at the English Court.
• June 5 – Physician John Hall marries Susanna, daughter of William Shakespeare.{{cite web |title=Susanna Hall |url=https://www.shakespeare.org.uk/explore-shakespeare/shakespedia/william-shakespeare/william-shakespeares-family/susanna-hall/ |website=Shakespeare Birthplace Trust |accessdate=18 April 2018}}
• September 5 – Hamlet is performed aboard the East India Company ship Red Dragon, under the command of Captain William Keeling, anchored off the coast of Sierra Leone, the first known performance of a Shakespeare play outside England in English, and the first by amateurs.
• September 30 – Richard II is performed aboard the Dragon.{{cite book |last1=Shakespeare |first1=William |title=King Richard II: Third Series |date=2002 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=9781903436332 |page=122 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rm3aGCwCEr0C&pg=PA122 |language=en}}
• unknown dates
• First performance of the first wholly parodic play in English, Francis Beaumont's The Knight of the Burning Pestle, unsuccessfully, probably by child actors at the Blackfriars Theatre in London.{{cite book|author=Zachary Lesser|title=Renaissance Drama and the Politics of Publication: Readings in the English Book Trade|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wfr3vT-g-2YC&pg=PA52|date=18 November 2004|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-84252-5|pages=52–}}
• The King's Revels Children are active as a playing company in London: their repertoire includes Edward Sharpham's Cupid's Whirligig and Thomas Middleton's The Family of Love.

• William Alabaster – Apparatus in Revelationem Jesu Christi
• John Cowell – The Interpreter (suppressed by the English House of Commons for excessive royalism)
• Michael Drayton – The Legend of Great Cromwell{{cite book |last1=McLaughlin |first1=Becky |title=Putting Theory into Practice in the Contemporary Classroom: Theory Lessons |date=2017 |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |isbn=9781443868471 |page=207 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MznZDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA207 |language=en}}
• Antoine Loysel – Institutes coutumières
• César Oudin – Thrésor des deux langues françoise et espagnole
• Lawrence Twine – The Pattern of Painful Adventures, second edition; a source for Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre
• Honoré d'Urfé – L'Astrée (part 1)

• William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling – The Monarchic Tragedies (second edition adding The Alexandrean and Julius Caesar to closet dramas Croesus and Darius
• Anonymous – Claudius Tiberius Nero
• Barnabe Barnes – The Devil's Charter
• Francis Beaumont – The Knight of the Burning Pestle
• Beaumont and Fletcher – The Woman Hater (published, earliest of their collaborations to appear in print)
• Thomas Campion – Lord Hay's Masque
• George Chapman – Bussy D'Ambois (published)
• John Day, William Rowley, and George Wilkins – The Travels of the Three English Brothers
• Thomas Dekker – The Whore of Babylon
• Thomas Dekker and John Webster – Westward Ho and Northward Ho published
• Dekker & Webster, with Henry Chettle (?), Thomas Heywood (?), and Wentworth Smith (?) – Sir Thomas Wyatt (published)
• Thomas Heywood – The Fair Maid of the Exchange (published)
• Ben Jonson – Volpone (published)
• John Marston – What You Will (published)
• Thomas Middleton
• Michaelmas Term (performed)
• The Phoenix (published)
• The Puritan (published as "written by W.S.")
• The Revenger's Tragedy (published)
• Edward Sharpham – Cupid's Whirligig
• Thomas Tomkis – Lingua (published)
• George Wilkins – The Miseries of Enforced Marriage (published)

• Thomas Dekker – The Seven Deadly Sins of London

• March 8 – Johann von Rist, German poet (died 1667)
• July 10 – Philippe Labbe, French Jesuit writer (died 1667)
• October 4 – Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, Spanish dramatist (died c. 1660)
• November 1 – Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet and translator (died 1658)
• November 5 – Anna Maria van Schurman, Dutch poet (died 1678)
• November 15 – Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (died 1701){{cite book |title=Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History Volume 13 Western Europe (1700-1800) |date=16 September 2019 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-40283-6 |page=482 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nkOxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA482 |language=en}}
• Unknown dates
• Alaol, Bengali poet (died 1673)
• Antoine Gombaud, French essayist (died 1684)
• Filadelfo Mugnos, Italian historian (died 1675)
• Francisco Núñez de Pineda y Bascuñán, Chilean writer and soldier (died 1682)

• January 6 – Guidobaldo del Monte, Italian philosopher (born 1545)
• May – Sir Edward Dyer, English poet (born 1543)
• June – Thomas Newton, English physician, clergyman, poet, author and translator (born c. 1542)
• June 19 – Johannes Bertelius, historian of Luxembourg (born 1544){{cite book|title=A - Byzantium|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mW6AQ9dvEgoC&pg=PA445|year=1867|pages=445|last1 = Halkett|first1 = Samuel|last2 = Hjaltalín|first2 = Jón Andréson|last3 = Jamieson|first3 = Thomas Hill}}
• June 30 – Caesar Baronius, Italian ecclesiastical historian (born 1538)
• July 6 – Achille Gagliardi, Italian theologian (born 1537)
• July 7 – Penelope Rich, Lady Rich, English noblewoman, inspiration for Sir Philip Sidney's "Stella" (born 1563)
• October 31 – Wawrzyniec Grzymała Goślicki, Polish philosopher (born c. 1540)
• Unknown dates
• Cuthbert Burby, English publisher and bookseller
• Dinko Ranjina, Croatian poet (born 1536)
• Probable year of death – Henry Chettle, English dramatist (born c. 1564)

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