1576 in literature
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The following literary events and publications occurred in the year 1576.
Events
- December â James Burbage opens The Theatre, the second permanent public playhouse in London (and the first to have a substantial life â 22 years), ushering in the great age of Elizabethan drama.[1]
- unknown dates
- The composer Richard Farrant opens the first Blackfriars Theatre in London, presenting plays performed by the Children of the Chapel.[2]
- The composer Thomas Whythorne writes a Booke of songs and sonetts with longe discourses sett with them [sic], an early example of autobiographical writing in English.
New books
Prose
- Jean Bodin â Les Six livres de la République (The Six Books of the Republic)
- Ulpian Fulwell â Ars adulandi, or, The Art of Flattery (dialogues)
- Ãtienne de La Boétie (died 1563) â Discourse on Voluntary Servitude (Discours de la servitude volontaire, published as Le Contr'un)
- George Pettie â A Petite Palace of Pettie His Pleasure
- Peter Martyr Vermigli (died 1562; edited by Robert le Maçon) â Loci Communes
- George Whetstone â The Rocke of Regard
Drama
- Luigi Pasqualigo â Il Fedele
- George Wapull â The Tide Tarrieth No Man published[3]
Poetry
- See 1576 in poetry
- Tulsidas â Ramcharitmanas
- The Paradise of Dainty Devices, the most popular of the Elizabethan verse miscellanies
Births
- January 12 â Petrus Scriverius, Dutch historian (died 1660)[4]
- May 27 â Caspar Schoppe, German controversialist (died 1649)[5]
- June 6 â Giovanni Diodati, Bible translator (died 1649)[6]
- October â John Marston, English dramatist and poet (died 1634)[7]
- October 30 â Enrico Caterino Davila, Italian historian (died 1631)[8]
- unknown dates
- William Ames, English philosopher (died 1633)[9]
- Johann Bogermann, Dutch translator (died 1637)
- Samuel Collins, theologian (died 1651)
- Charles Fitzgeoffrey, Elizabethan poet (died 1638)
- Goldastus, Swiss Calvinist historian (died 1635)
- John Weever, English poet and antiquary (died 1632)
Deaths
- January 19 â Hans Sachs, German poet and dramatist (born 1494)[10]
- February 10 â Wilhelm Xylander, German classical scholar (born 1532)[11]
- March 18 â Johann Stössel, German Lutheran theologian (born 1524; died in prison)
- May 2 â Bartolomé Carranza, Spanish theologian (born 1503)
- June 30 â Franciscus Sonnius, Flemish theologian (born 1506)
- October 14 â Konrad Heresbach, Calvinist writer (born 1496)
- unknown dates
- Basil Faber, German theologian (born 1520)
- Aloysius Lilius, Italian philosopher (born c. 1510)[12]
- Lancelot Ridley, English theologian[13]
- Mavro VetranoviÄ, Croatian Benedictine poet and author (born 1482)