1584 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1584.

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Events

• date unknown – Master Thomas Giles takes charge of the Children of Paul's, a company of boy actors. This is the start of a close association with the works of John Lyly.[1]

New books

Prose

• Giordano Bruno – La Cena de le Ceneri (Ash Wednesday Supper)
• John Dee – 48 Claves angelicae (48 Angelic Keys, written in Kraków)
• James VI of Scotland – Some Reulis and Cautelis to be observit and eschewit in Scottis poesie
• David Powel – The Historie of Cambria, now called Wales (first printed history of Wales)
• Reginald Scot – The Discoverie of Witchcraft
• Richard Stanihurst – De rebus in Hibernia gestis (Of matters in the history of Ireland)
• Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer – Spiegel der Zeevaerdt (Mariners' Mirror, English 1588, Latin 1591)

Drama

• 'A.M.' (probably Anthony Munday) – Fidele and Fortunio
• Robert Wilson (attributed) – The Three Ladies of London

Poetry

See 1584 in poetry

• Thomas Watson – Hekatompathia or Passionate Centurie of Love (publication)

Births

• May – André Duchesne, French geographer and historian (died 1640)
• August 29 – Patrick Young, Scottish scholar and royal librarian (died 1652)
• September 15 – Georg Rudolf Weckherlin, German poet (died 1653)
• December 16 – John Selden, English polymath (died 1654)
• unknown dates
  • Francis Beaumont, English dramatist and poet (died 1616)[2]
  • Anna Ovena Hoyer, German/Swedish poet (died 1655)
  • Hu Zhengyan, Chinese artist, printmaker, calligrapher and publisher (died 1674)

Deaths

• February 18 – Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian prose writer (born 1503)[3]
• March 10 – Thomas Norton, English lawyer, politician and poet (born 1532)
• June 13 – János Zsámboky, Hungarian humanist, philologist and historian (born 1531)[4]
• July 23 – John Day, English Protestant printer (born c. 1522)
• August 12 – Carolus Sigonius, Italian humanist writer (born c. 1524)[5]
• November 21 – Turrianus, Spanish Jesuit Hellenist and polemicist (born c. 1509)
• unknown dates
  • Stephen Batman, English translator (date of birth unknown)
  • Gerhard Dorn, Flemish philosopher, translator and polymath (born c. 1530)
  • Alonso Gutiérrez, Spanish philosopher (born c. 1507)[6]

References

1. Chambers, E. K. The Elizabethan Stage. vol. 2, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1923.
2. William Worthen Appleton (1956). Beaumont and Fletcher. CUP Archive. pp. 9=.
3. Charles Dudley Warner (1 July 2008). A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol.XLII. Cosimo, Inc. p. 231. ISBN 978-1-60520-248-8.
4. Jacob Soll, The information master: Jean-Baptiste Colbert's secret state intelligence system, University of Michigan Press, 2009, p.26
5. Timperley (C. H.) (1839). A Dictionary of Printers and Printing, with the Progress of Literature, Ancient and Modern; Bibliographical Illustrations. Johnson. p. 380.
6. Clarence A. Liederbach (1977). Mexico's Bishops. Bona Ventura Press. p. 74.