1595 in literature

1595 in literature

Events

*Lope de Vega leaves the service of the Duke of Alba and returns to Madrid.
*On December 9, Shakespeare's "Richard II" is acted at a private performance at the Canon Row house of Sir Edward Hoby; Sir Robert Cecil attends.

New books

*Mikalojus Daukša - "Kathechismas, arba Mokslas kiekvienam krikščioniui privalus"
*Justus Lipsius - "De militia romana"
*Nicholas Remy - "Daemonolatreiae libri tres"
*Sir Philip Sidney - "Defense of Poesy" (written between 1580-1583) is published for the first time.

New drama

*Anonymous - "Locrine"
*Jakob Ayrer - "Von der Erbauung Roms ("The Building of Rome")"
*Antoine de Montchrestien - "Sophonisbe"
*William Shakespeare
**"Richard II"
**"Romeo and Juliet"

Poetry

*Barnabe Barnes - "A Divine Century of Spiritual Sonnets"
*Richard Barnfield - "Cynthia"
*George Chapman - "Ovid's Banquet of Sense"
*Gervase Markham:
**"The Most Honorable Tragedy of Sir Richard Grinville"
**"The Poem of Poems, or Syon's Muse"
*Robert Southwell - "Saint Peter's Complaint"

Births

*March 21 - Ferdinando Ughelli, church historian (died 1670)
*December 4 - Jean Chapelain, poet (died 1674)
*"date unknown"
**Thomas Carew, poet (died 1640)
**Jean Desmarets, dramatist (died 1676)
**Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Jesuit writer (died 1658)

Deaths

*February 21 - Robert Southwell, poet and Catholic martyr (born about 1561)
*April 25 - Torquato Tasso, poet (born 1544)
*May 25 - Valens Acidalius, poet and critic (born 1567)
*"date unknown"
**Louis Carrion, humanist scholar
**Faizi, Poet Laureate of the Emperor Akbar (born 1547)
**Luis Barahona de Soto, poet
**Jean de Sponde, Huguenot poet


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