1584 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1584.
Events
- Master Thomas Giles takes charge of the Children of Paul's, a company of boy actors. This is the start of a close association with the works of John Lyly.[1]
- London printer John Twyn is hanged, drawn and quartered for producing an edition of Gregory Martin's Catholic A Treatise of Schisme (1578).[2]
New books
Prose
- Giordano Bruno â La Cena de le Ceneri (Ash Wednesday Supper)[3]
- John Dee â 48 Claves angelicae (48 Angelic Keys, written in Kraków)[4]
- James VI of Scotland â Some Reulis and Cautelis to be observit and eschewit in Scottis poesie
- David Powel â The Historie of Cambria, now called Wales (first printed history of Wales)[5]
- Reginald Scot â The Discoverie of Witchcraft
- Richard Stanihurst â De rebus in Hibernia gestis (Of matters in the history of Ireland)
- Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer â Spiegel der Zeevaerdt (Mariners' Mirror, English 1588, Latin 1591)
Drama
- 'A.M.' (probably Anthony Munday) â Fidele and Fortunio
- Robert Wilson (attributed) â The Three Ladies of London
Poetry
See 1584 in poetry
- Thomas Watson â Hekatompathia or Passionate Centurie of Love (publication)
Births
- May â André Duchesne, French geographer and historian (died 1640)
- August 29 â Patrick Young, Scottish scholar and royal librarian (died 1652)
- September 15 â Georg Rudolf Weckherlin, German poet (died 1653)
- December 16 â John Selden, English polymath (died 1654)
- unknown dates
- Francis Beaumont, English dramatist and poet (died 1616)[6]
- Anna Ovena Hoyer, German/Swedish poet (died 1655)
- Hu Zhengyan, Chinese artist, printmaker, calligrapher and publisher (died 1674)
Deaths
- February 18 â Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian prose writer (born 1503)[7]
- March 10 â Thomas Norton, English lawyer, politician and poet (born 1532)
- June 13 â János Zsámboky, Hungarian humanist, philologist and historian (born 1531)[8]
- July 23 â John Day, English Protestant printer (born c. 1522)
- August 12 â Carolus Sigonius, Italian humanist writer (born c. 1524)[9]
- November 21 â Turrianus, Spanish Jesuit Hellenist and polemicist (born c. 1509)[10]
- unknown dates
- Stephen Batman, English translator (date of birth unknown)
- Gerhard Dorn, Flemish philosopher, translator and polymath (born c. 1530)
- Alonso Gutiérrez, Spanish philosopher (born c. 1507)[11]