1592 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1592.

Events

February 5â7 â Ulysses Redux, a Latin play by William Gager, is staged by members of Christ Church, Oxford. Two days later, they revive Gager's 1583 Latin play Rivales (now lost).
February 26 â The first firmly recorded performance of Christopher Marlowe's The Jew of Malta is given by Lord Strange's Men in London.
June 23 â The London theatres close and apart from a brief spell around January 1593 remain so for about 16 months due to an epidemic of bubonic plague.
September 3 â The English writer Robert Greene dies in London of a "banquet of Rhenish wine and pickled herring",^[1] having apparently completed Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit (published soon after), including a reference to "an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers", taken to be the first published (critical) reference to Shakespeare as a playwright.
September 26 â Rivales is performed again by members of Christ Church, with Queen Elizabeth I of England in the audience, during her second visit to the University of Oxford.
OctoberâDecember â Pembroke's Men, an English playing company, is known to be in existence, acting in Leicester and at Court in London.
November 9 â The Sixto-Clementine Vulgate is promulgated.^[2]
December 18 â An entry in the Stationers' Register may refer to Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, perhaps marking the year of its first performance.

Antonio Agustin â Dialoghi intorno alle medaglie inscrittioni et attre antichitÃ , with woodcuts by Geronima Parasole (the first known printed book with illustrations by a woman)
Isaac Casaubon â New edition of Theophrastus's Characteres
Blaise de Montluc (died 1577) â Commentaires de Messire Blaise de Montluc
'P. F.' (translator) â The Historie of the Damnable Life, and Deserved Death of Doctor Iohn Faustus
Robert Greene (died September 3)
- The Black Books Messenger
- A Disputation Between a Hee Conny-Catcher and a Shee Conny-Catcher
- The Third and Last Part of Conycatching
- Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit, Bought with a Million of Repentance
- Greene's Vision, Written at the Instant of his Death
- Philomela
- A Quip for an Upstart Courtier
Muhammad al-Idrisi (died 1165) â De geographia universali or KitÄb Nuzhat al-mushtÄq fÄ« dhikr al-amá¹£Är wa-al-aqá¹Är wa-al-buldÄn wa-al-juzur wa-al-madÄâ in wa-al-ÄfÄq
Richard Johnson â Nine Worthies of London
Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer â Thresoor der Zeevaert (Treasure of navigation)
Hieronymous Megiser â Dictionarium quatuor linguarum
Anonymous (possibly Thomas Kyd) â The Murder of John Brewen
Wu Cheng'en (died 1580/2; attributed) â Journey to the West (XÄ« YÃ³u JÃ¬)^[3]

Anonymous (variously attributed to Thomas Kyd, William Shakespeare and/or Christopher Marlowe) â Arden of Faversham (published)
Anonymous â A Knack to Know a Knave
William Gager â Ulysses Redux (Latin)
Thomas Kyd â The Spanish Tragedy (undated first printing, almost certainly between October and December in this year; first performed around 1587; first recorded performance November in this year)
John Lyly â Gallathea and Midas published
Christopher Marlowe â Edward II
Thomas Nashe â Summer's Last Will and Testament
William Shakespeare â The Taming of the Shrew (approximate date)

January 16 (baptised) â Henry King, English poet and bishop (died 1669)
January 22 â Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher and scientist (died 1655)
March 28 â John Amos Comenius (Jan Amos KomenskÃ½), Czech teacher and writer (died 1670)
April 4 â Abraham Elzevir, Dutch printer (died 1652)
May 8 â Francis Quarles, English poet (died 1644)
July 10 â Pierre d'Hozier, French historian (died 1660)

July 22 â Ludwig Rabus, German Lutheran theologian (born 1523)
September 3 â Robert Greene, English writer (born 1558)^[4]
September 13 â Michel de Montaigne, French essayist (born 1533)^[5]
September 26 (burial) â Thomas Watson, English lyric poet writing in English and Latin (born 1555)