1588 in literature

1588 in literature

Events

*The Children of Paul's perform at Court on January 1, probably acting Lyly's "Gallathea". The troupe returns on February 2, probably with Lyly's "Endymion".
*The gentlemen of Gray's Inn perform Thomas Hughes' play "The Misfortunes of Arthur" before Queen Elizabeth, at Greenwich Palace on February 28.

New books

*William Cardinal Allen - "An Admonition to the nobility and people of England"
*Robert Greene - "Pandosto"
*Thomas Hariot - "A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia"
*Thomas Nashe - "The Anatomie of Absurditie"
*William Rankins - "The English Ape"
*Welsh Bible (translation by William Morgan)

New drama

*Thomas Hughes - "The Misfortunes of Arthur"
*George Peele - "The Battle of Alcazar" (date first performed)

Poetry

*Felipe Fernandez-Armesto - "Two Prayers and a Sailor's Lilt Aboard the Spanish Armada"
*Jean de Sponde - "Essai de quelques poèmes chrétiens"

Births

*April 5 - Thomas Hobbes, philosopher (d. 1679)
*April 15 - Claudius Salmasius, Classical commentator (d. 1653)
*September 8 - Marin Mersenne, theologian and philosopher (d. 1648)
*"date unknown"
**Leonard Digges (II), poet and translator (d. 1635)
**Francis Higginson, colonial Puritan writer (d. 1630)
**Johannes Maccovius, theologian (d. 1644)

Deaths

*February 24 - Johann Weyer, Dutch demonologist (b. c. 1515)
*September 3 - Richard Tarlton, Elizabethan actor (b. 1530)
*November 1 - Jean Daurat, French poet (b. 1508)
*"date unknown"
**Sperone Speroni, Humanist scholar and dramatist (b. 1500)
**Christian Wursteisen, theologian and historian (b. 1544)


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