1599 in literature
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: 1598 in literature, other events of 1599, 1600 in literature, list of years in literature.
Contents |
[edit] Events
- First recorded performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar in London.
[edit] New books
- John Bodenham - Wits' Theater
- Roger Fenton - An Answer to William Alabaster, His Motives
[edit] New drama
- Thomas Dekker
- The Shoemaker's Holiday
- Patient Grissel - (with Henry Chettle, and William Haughton)
- Ben Jonson - Every Man Out of His Humour
- John Marston
- William Shakespeare - Henry V
[edit] Poetry
- Samuel Daniel - Musophilus
- Sir John Davies
- Hymnes of Astraea
- Nosce Teipsum
- George Peele - The Love of King David and Faire Bethsabe
[edit] Births
- May 30 - Samuel Bochart, Biblical scholar
- July 23 - Stephanius, Danish royal historiographer
- August 14 - Méric Casaubon, English classicist (died 1671)
- October 31 - Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English statesman and writer (died 1680)
- date unknown - Madeleine de Souvré, marquise de Sablé, maxim writer
[edit] Deaths
- January 13 - Edmund Spenser, English poet (born 1552)
- October 18 - Daniel Adam z Veleslavína, lexicographer (born 1546)
- date unknown
- Jerónimo Bermúdez, dramatist
- Sherefxan Bidlisi, historian and poet
- Israel ben Moses Najara, Jewish liturgical poet (born 1530)
- Henry Porter, dramatist
- Reginald Scot, author of The Discoverie of Witchcraft
