1591 in literature

1591 in literature

Events

*In the spring of the year, a dispute with James Burbage impels the Admiral's Men to leave The Theatre and move to Philip Henslowe's Rose Theatre.
*Summer - Sir Walter Raleigh secretly marries Elizabeth Throckmorton.
*October 4 - John Lyly's "Midas" is entered in the Stationers' Register.
*November 8 - Publisher Thomas Millington becomes a "freeman" (full member) of the Stationers' Company.

New books

*Andrea Alciato - "Emblemata"
*Robert Greene - "Greene's Farewell to Folly"
*John Greenwood - "A Breife Refutation of Mr George Giffard, etc."
*Melis Stoke - "Rijmkroniek" (History of the Netherlands) (written during the 14th century)
*"A. W." - "A Book of Cookrye"

New drama

*Anonymous - "The Troublesome Reign of King John" (published)
*John Lyly - "Endymion, the Man in the Moon" (published)
*Muretus - "Julius Caesar" (published)
*Robert Wilmot - "Tancred and Gismund" (published)

Poetry

*James VI of Scotland - "Lepanto"
*Sir Philip Sidney – "Astrophel and Stella" (published posthumously)

Births

*March 6 - Tommaso Tamburini, theologian (d. 1675)
*August - Robert Herrick, poet (d. 1674)
*"date unknown"
**Thomas Goffe, dramatist (d. 1629)
**Ivan Bunić Vučić, Ragusan poet (d. 1658)

Deaths

*August 23 - Luis Ponce de León, poet and orator (b. 1527)
*"date unknown"
**Noël du Fail, short story writer (b. c. 1520)
**Johann Fischart, satirist (b. c. 1545)
**Veronica Franco, poet and courtesan (b. 1546)


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