1587 in literature

1587 in literature

Events

*The Rose theatre is built by Philip Henslowe in Southwark.
*Torquato Tasso travels to Rome to stay with Scipione Gonzaga, Patriarch of Jerusalem.

New books

*George Gifford - "A discourse of the subtill practises of deuilles by witches and sorcerers"
*John Penry - "The Æquity of an Humble Supplication"
* William Rankins - "A Mirror of Monsters"

New drama

* Thomas Kyd - "The Spanish Tragedy"

Poetry

*"See 1587 in poetry"

Births

*June 21 - Kaspar von Barth, German philologist (d. 1658)
*November 17 - Joost van den Vondel, Dutch dramatist (d. 1679)
*"date unknown"
**Michael Alford, English Jesuit writer (d. 1652)
**Francesco Angeloni, Italian historian (d. 1652)
**Nathan Field, English dramatist (d. 1620)
**Arthur Johnston, Scottish poet (d. 1641)
**Francis Kynaston, English poet (d. 1642)
**Alexander Leighton, Scottish pamphleteer (d. c. 1644)

Deaths

*March 15 - Kaspar Olevianus, German Protestant theologian (b. 1536)
*April 18 - John Foxe, martyrologist (b. 1517)
*September 19 - Pamelius, Belgian theologian (b. 1536)
*November
**Catherine Des Roches, French poet and author (b. 1542), and her mother
**Madeleine Des Roches, French poet and author (b. c. 1520)
*"date unknown"
**Dudley Fenner, English theologian (b. c. 1558)


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