1595 in literature

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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Non-fiction 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Lope de Vega leaves the service of the Duke of Alba and returns to Madrid.

[edit] New books

[edit] New drama

• Locrine (anonymous)
• William Shakespeare
  • Richard II
  • Romeo and Juliet

[edit] Non-fiction

• Justus Lipsius - De militia romana
• Nicholas Remy - Daemonolatreiae libri tres

[edit] Births

• March 21 - Ferdinando Ughelli, church historian (died 1670)
• December 4 - Jean Chapelain, poet (died 1674)
• date unknown
  • Thomas Carew, poet (died 1640)
  • Jean Desmarets, dramatist (died 1676)
  • Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Jesuit writer (died 1658)

[edit] Deaths

• February 21 - Robert Southwell, poet and Catholic martyr (born about 1561)
• April 25 - Torquato Tasso, poet (born 1544)
• May 25 - Valens Acidalius, poet and critic (born 1567)
• date unknown
  • Louis Carrion, humanist scholar
  • Faizi, Poet Laureate of the Emperor Akbar (born 1547)
  • Luis Barahona de Soto, poet
  • Jean de Sponde, Huguenot poet