1598 in literature

1598 in literature

Events

*On September 22, Ben Jonson is charged with manslaughter, after killing actor Gabriel Spenser in a duel.
*Lancelot Andrewes turns down the bishoprics of both Ely and Salisbury.
*Lope de Vega marries Juana de Guardo.
*The year sees a burst of satirical writing, especially from John Marston; the excesses would lead to an official suppression in the following year.

New books

*John Bodenham - "Politeuphuia (Wits' Commonwealth)"
*King James VI of Scotland - "The Trew Law of Free Monarchies"
*Francis Meres - "Palladis Tamia, Wits Treasury"
*John Stow - "Survey of London"

New drama

*Anonymous - "Mucedorus" published
*Samuel Brandon - "Virtuous Octavia"
*Henry Chettle, Henry Porter & Ben Jonson - "Hot Anger Soon Cold"
*Robert Greene - "The Scottish History of James IV" published
*William Haughton - "Englishmen for My Money"
*Ben Jonson - "Every Man in His Humour"
*Anthony Munday - "The Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntingdon"
*Anthony Munday (& Henry Chettle?) - "The Death of Robert Earl of Huntingdon"
*Henry Porter - "Love Prevented"
* William Shakespeare - "Henry IV, Part 1" and "Love's Labor's Lost" published

Poetry

*Richard Barnfield – "The Encomium of Lady Pecunia"
*Lope de Vega – "La Arcadia"
*Lope de Vega – "La Dragontea"
*Christopher Marlowe – "Hero and Leander" (completed by George Chapman and published after Marlowe's death)
*John Marston – "The Metamorphosis of Pigmalian's Image"; "The Scourge of Villanie"

Births

*August 7 - Georg Stiernhielm, poet

Deaths

*January 9 - Jasper Heywood, translator
*December 6 - Paolo Paruta, historian
*December 15 - Philips van Marnix, lord of Sint-Aldegonde, statesman and author
*"date unknown"
**Friedrich Dedekind, theologian
**Jacopo Mazzoni, philosopher
**Heinrich Rantzau, humanist writer


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