Anthony and Cleopatra must have been acted about this time, as well as Cyril Tourneur's Revenger's Tragedy.
On 25th June Susanna, Shakespeare's eldest daughter, married Dr. John Hall, an eminent physician at Stratford.
On 6th August Middleton's Puritan Widow was entered on S. R., and imprinted as by W.S.
Twine's Pattern of Painful Adventures, on which Wilkins' version of Pericles was founded, was reprinted in this year.
On 22d October Drayton's Merry Devil of Edmonton was entered on S. R. The entry on 5th April under the same title, in which the authorship is ascribed to T[homas] B[rewer], refers to the prose story, not the play.
On 26th November King Lear was entered on S. R.
On December 31 Shakespeare's brother Edmund was buried at St. Saviour's, Southwark, aged twenty-eight, "a player," "with a forenoon knell of the great bell."
There were thirteen Court performances by the King's men: on December 26, 27, 28; January 2, 6 (two plays), 7, 9, 17 (two plays), 26; February 2, 6.
On February 21 Elizabeth Hall, Shakespeare's granddaughter, was baptized at Stratford.