- 1590 in literature
Events
*The
Children of Paul's perform at Court twice in the first week of January; one of the plays they acted may have beenJohn Lyly 's "Midas". Later in the year, however, they are banned from performing because of the involvement of their chief script-writer, Lyly, in theMarprelate controversy .New books
*Robert Greene - "Greene's Mourning Garment"
** - "Never Too Late"
*Thomas Lodge - "Rosalynde"
*Thomas Nashe - "An Almond for a Parrat"New drama
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Christopher Marlowe - "Tamburlaine" (both parts published)
*George Peele - "Famous Chronicle of King Edward the First "
*Robert Wilson - "The Three Lords and Three Ladies of London" (published)Poetry
*Sir
Philip Sidney - "Arcadia"
*Edmund Spenser - "The Faerie Queene ", Books 1-3Births
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March 18 -Manuel de Faria e Sousa , historian and poet (d. 1649)
*June 24 -Samuel Ampzing , poet (d. 1632)
*July 26 -Johannes Crellius , theologian (d. 1633)
*September 12 -María de Zayas , poet and dramatist (d. 1661)
*October 11 -William Pynchon , theologian (d. 1662)
*"date unknown"
**Alonso Andrada , biographer (d. 1672)
**Thomas Carve , historian (d. c. 1672)
**Faqi Tayran , Kurdish poet (d. 1660)
**Grigore Ureche , chronicler (d. 1647)
**Théophile de Viau , poet and dramatist (d. 1626)Deaths
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February 1 -Lawrence Humphrey , theologian (b. c. 1527)
*March -Petru Cercel , Wallachian prince and poet
*July -Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas , poet (b. 1544)
*November 23 -André Thévet , cosmographer (b. 1502)
*November 29 -Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin , poet and dramatist (b. 1547)
*December 5 -Johann Habermann , theologian (b. 1516)
*"date unknown"
**Jakob Andreae , theologian (b. 1528)
**Robert Garnier , poet (b. 1544)
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