1582 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1582.
Events
- February â Meleager, a Latin play on the mythological figure of Meleager by "Gulielmus Gagerus" (William Gager), is performed by members of Christ Church, Oxford.
- November 29 â Marriage of William Shakespeare, 18 years old, to 26-year-old Anne Hathaway (who is pregnant with their first daughter, Susanna), perhaps at Temple Grafton (and not at Stratford-upon-Avon) in England.[1] It will be a decade before he emerges on the London theatrical scene.
- Publication in England of the first part of Richard Mulcaster's textbook on the teaching of English, the Elementarie, including "a generall table [of eight thousand words] we commonlie use" in regularized spelling.
- Earliest reference to the publishing of private newspapers in Beijing (China).
New books
Prose
- Robert Bellarmine â Disputationes de Controversiis
- George Buchanan â Rerum Scoticarum Historia
- Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx â Balet comique de la Royne
- "DouayâRheims Bible", New Testament
- Richard Hakluyt â Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America
- John Leland â A learned and true assertion of the original, life, actes, and death of the most noble, valiant, and renoumed Prince Arthure, King of great Brittaine (posthumous translation)
- Anthony Munday â English Romayne Lyfe (i. e. Life of an Englishman in Rome)
Drama
- Anonymous â The Rare Triumphs of Love and Fortune
- Miguel de Cervantes â El cerco de Numancia
- William Gager â Meleager
- Giovanni Battista Guarini â Il pastor fido
Poetry
See 1582 in poetry
Births
- January 6 â Alonso de Contreras, Spanish adventurer and writer (died 1641)
- January 28 â John Barclay, Scottish satirist and poet (died 1621)
- February 6 â Mario Bettinus, Italian philosopher (died 1657)
- April 8 (baptised) â Phineas Fletcher, English poet (died 1650)
- October 17 â Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran theologian (died 1637)
- November 21 â François Maynard, French poet (died 1646)
- Unknown dates
- Giovanni Francesco Abela, Maltese writer (died 1655)
- Richard Corbet, English poet and bishop (died 1635)
- William Lithgow, Scottish traveller and author (died 1645)
Deaths
- January 26 â Thomas Platter, Swiss humanist writer (born 1499)
- July/August â Jacques Pelletier du Mans, French humanist poet (born 1517)
- September 28 â George Buchanan, Scottish historian (born 1506)
- October 4 â Teresa of Ãvila, Spanish mystical writer (born 1515)
- Unknown dates
- Arnoldus Arlenius, Dutch humanist philosopher and poet (born c.1510)
- Natalis Comes, Italian mythographer, poet and historian (born 1520)
- Jobus Fincelius, German humanist writer