1598 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1598.
Events
- Before September â A second edition of Love's Labour's Lost appears in London as the first known printing of a Shakespeare play to have his name on the title page ("Newly corrected and augmented by W. Shakespere").
- February 23 â Thomas Bodley refounds the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford.[1]
- March 28 â Philip Henslowe contracts Edward Alleyn and Thomas Heywood to act for the Admiral's Men in London for two years.[2]
- April 30 â A comedy, by an anonymous playwright about an expedition of soldiers, is the very first theatrical performance in North America, staged near El Paso for Spanish colonists.[3]
- May 3 â The Spanish playwright Lope de Vega marries for the second time, to Juana de Guardo.
- c. May â The premiÄre of William Haughton's Englishmen for My Money, or, A Woman Will Have Her Will introduces what is seen as the first city comedy, probably by the Admiral's Men at London's Rose Theatre.[4]
- c. July/September â Ben Jonson's comedy of humours Every Man in His Humour is probably first performed, by the Lord Chamberlain's Men at the Curtain Theatre, London, perhaps with Shakespeare playing Kno'well.[1]
- September 7 â Francis Meres' Palladis Tamia, Wits Treasury is registered for publication, including the first list and critical discussion of Shakespeare's works; he also mentions that Shakespeare's "sugar'd sonnets" are circulating privately.[5]
- September 22 â Ben Jonson kills actor Gabriel Spenser in a duel in London and is briefly held in Newgate Prison, but escapes capital punishment by pleading benefit of clergy.[6]
- October â Edmund Spenser's castle, Kilcolman Castle near Doneraile in Ireland, is burned down by native forces under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone. Spenser leaves for London shortly after.
- November 25 â Henry Chettle is paid for "mending" a play about Robin Hood to make it suitable for performance at court.[7]
- December 28 â London's The Theatre is dismantled.[8]
- unknown dates
- Lancelot Andrewes turns down the bishoprics of Ely and Salisbury.
- The English poet Barnabe Barnes is prosecuted in the Star Chamber for attempted murder of one John Browne, first by offering him a poisoned lemon and then by sweetening his wine with sugar laced with mercury sublimate; Browne survives both attempts.[9]
- John Marston's The Metamorphosis of Pigmalion's Image and Certaine Satyres begins a trend in English satirical writing that leads to official suppression in the following year.[10]
New books
Prose
- John Florio â A World of Words, Italian/English dictionary, the first dictionary published in England to use quotations ("illustrations") for meaning to the words
- Emanuel Ford â Parismus, the Renowned Prince of Bohemia (first part)
- King James VI of Scotland â The True Law of Free Monarchies
- Francis Meres â Palladis Tamia[5]
- Merkelis PetkeviÄius â Polski z litewskim katechism
- John Stow â Survey of London[11]
- Zhao Shizhen â Shenqipu (3rd century, possible first publication)[citation needed]
- Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer â Enchuyser zeecaertboeck (Enkhuizen book of sea charts)
Drama
- Anonymous
- The Famous Victories of Henry V earliest known publication
- Mucedorus published
- The Pilgrimage to Parnassus (earliest possible date of composition)
- Jakob Ayrer
- Von der Erbauung Roms (The Building of Rome)
- Von der schönen Melusina (Fair Melusina)
- Samuel Brandon â Virtuous Octavia
- Henry Chettle, Henry Porter and Ben Jonson â Hot Anger Soon Cold[12]
- Robert Greene â The Scottish History of James IV published
- William Haughton â Englishmen for My Money
- Ben Jonson â Every Man in His Humour[13]
- Anthony Munday â The Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntingdon[7]
- Anthony Munday (and Henry Chettle?) â The Death of Robert Earl of Huntingdon[7]
- Henry Porter â Love Prevented
- William Shakespeare
- Henry IV, Part 1 (published)
- Love's Labour's Lost (published)[14]
Poetry
- Richard Barnfield
- The Encomium of Lady Pecunia
- Poems in Divers Humours
- George Chapman â translation of Homer's Iliad into English[1]
- Lope de Vega â La Arcadia and La Dragontea[15]
- Christopher Marlowe â Hero and Leander (completed by Chapman following Marlowe's death)[16]
- John Marston â The Metamorphosis of Pigmalian's Image and The Scourge of Villanie
Births
- March 12 â Guillaume Colletet, French writer (died 1659)[17]
- March 13 â Johannes Loccenius, German historian (died 1677)
- July 29 â Henricus Regius, Dutch philosopher and correspondent of René Descartes (died 1679)[18]
- August 7 â Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet (died 1672)[19]
- unknown date â Johann George Moeresius, German poet (died 1657)
Deaths
- January 2 - Morris Kyffin, Welsh soldier and author (born c.1555)[20]
- January 9 â Jasper Heywood, English translator (born 1535)
- February 27 â Friedrich Dedekind, German theologian (born 1524)[21]
- April 10 â Jacopo Mazzoni, Italian philosopher (born 1548)[citation needed]
- August â Alexander Montgomerie, outlawed Scottish poet (born c. 1545/1550)
- December 6 â Paolo Paruta, Venetian historian (born 1540)[22]
- December 15 â Philips van Marnix, lord of Sint-Aldegonde, Dutch statesman and author (born 1540)[23]
- December 31 â Heinrich Rantzau, German humanist writer (born 1526)
- unknown date â David Powel, Welsh historian who popularised continuing legends such as that of Prince Madoc (born c. 1549)[24]