1594 in literature

1594 in literature

Events

*The London theatres re-open in the spring, after two years of general inactivity due to the bubonic plague epidemic of 1592–94. Many of the actors who used to be Lord Strange's Men form a new organization, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, under the patronage of Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon, then Lord Chamberlain of England.
* On April 6 and 9, personnel from Queen Elizabeth's Men and Sussex's Men perform the early "King Leir" at the Rose Theatre.
*The re-organized Admiral's Men begin performances on May 14, with Christopher Marlowe's "The Jew of Malta".
*Franciscus Gomarus becomes professor of theology at Leiden.
*"The Comedy of Errors" is performed at Gray's Inn on December 28.KATAYY IS AN IDIOT :)

New books

*Sir John Davys - "The Seamans Secrets"
*Richard Hooker -"Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie"
*The earliest edition of Christopher Marlowe's "The Massacre at Paris" is undated, but was most probably printed in 1594
*Thomas Nashe - "The Unfortunate Traveller"

New drama

*Anonymous - "A Knack to Know an Honest Man"
*Anonymous - "Selimus" published
*Anonymous - "The Taming of a Shrew" published
*Anonymous - "The True Tragedy of Richard III" published
*Samuel Daniel - "Cleopatra"
*Robert Greene - "Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay" published
** - "Orlando Furioso" published
*Thomas Lodge & Robert Greene - "A Looking Glass for London" published
*Thomas Lodge - "The Wounds of Civil War" published
*Lope de Vega - "El maestro de danzar" - ("The Dancing Master")
*John Lyly - "Mother Bombie" published
*Christopher Marlowe (& Thomas Nashe?) - "Dido, Queen of Carthage" published
*William Shakespeare:
**"The Comedy of Errors" performed
**"Titus Andronicus" published
*Robert Wilson - "The Cobbler's Prophecy" published

Poetry

*Richard Barnfield - "The Affectionate Shepherd"
*George Chapman - "The Shadow of Night"
*William Shakespeare - "The Rape of Lucrece"
*Thomas Storer - "Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey"
*Henry Willobie - "Willobie his Avisa"

Births

*January 24 - Pierre de Marca, historian (died 1662)
*"date unknown"
**Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant, French poet (died 1661)
**John Spelman, historian (died 1643)
**Maria Tesselschade Visscher, Dutch poet (died 1649)

Deaths

*February
**Barnabe Googe, poet (born 1540)
**William Painter, translator (born about 1540)
*April 29 - Thomas Cooper, bishop, lexicographer and writer
*June 3 - John Aylmer, constitutionalist and translator
*July - Girolamo Mei, humanist and historian (born 1519)
*July 16 - Thomas Kyd, dramatist (born 1558)


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