page_title: 1623 in literature
section_title: Events
hierarchical_section_title: 1623 in literature / Events
caption_attribution_description: The title page of the w:First Folio of William Shakespeare's plays
context_section_description: February 2 (Candlemas) – The King's Men perform Twelfth Night (under the alternative title Malvolio) at the court of King James I of England.
  February 28 – John Hacket's Latin comedy Loiola is staged at Trinity College, Cambridge and repeated on March 12, for King James on his third visit to the University. The play mocks both Catholics, in the person of Ignatius Loyola, and Calvinists, who are represented by Martinus, a canting elder of Amsterdam.
  June 29 – Pedro Calderón de la Barca makes his debut as a playwright, his Amor, honor y poder (Love, Honor and Power) being performed at the Spanish Court. Two other plays follow this year.
  July 20 – Henry Herbert (Sir Henry from August) becomes deputy to Sir John Ashley, Master of the Revels and takes over his duties. Herbert effectively controls professional drama in England from 1623 until the theaters close in 1642.
  Between November 8 and early December – Publication of the "First Folio" (Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies), a collection of 36 of the plays of Shakespeare, half of which have not previously been printed, compiled posthumously by actors John Heminges and Henry Condell and published by Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount in London.
  Procopius's long-lost Secret History is rediscovered in the Vatican Library.
  François le Métel de Boisrobert comes under the patronage of Cardinal Richelieu.
caption: The First Folio
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