1590 in literature

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 been John Lyly's "Midas". Later in the year, however, they are banned from performing because of the involvement of their chief script-writer, Lyly, in the Marprelate controversy.

New books

*Robert Greene - "Greene's Mourning Garment"
** - "Never Too Late"
*Thomas Lodge - "Rosalynde"
*Thomas Nashe - "An Almond for a Parrat"

New drama

*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 1-3

Births

*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

*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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