1595 in literature

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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Poetry 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Lope de Vega leaves the service of the Duke of Alba and returns to Madrid.
• On December 9, Shakespeare's Richard II is acted at a private performance at the Canon Row house of Sir Edward Hoby; Sir Robert Cecil attends.

[edit] New books

• Mikalojus Daukša - Kathechismas, arba Mokslas kiekvienam krikščioniui privalus
• Justus Lipsius - De militia romana
• Nicholas Remy - Daemonolatreiae libri tres
• Sir Philip Sidney - Defense of Poesy (written between 1580-1583) is published for the first time.

[edit] New drama

• Anonymous - Locrine
• Jakob Ayrer - Von der Erbauung Roms ("The Building of Rome")
• Antoine de Montchrestien - Sophonisbe
• William Shakespeare
  • Richard II
  • Romeo and Juliet

[edit] Poetry

• Barnabe Barnes - A Divine Century of Spiritual Sonnets
• Richard Barnfield - Cynthia
• George Chapman - Ovid's Banquet of Sense
• Gervase Markham:
  • The Most Honorable Tragedy of Sir Richard Grinville
  • The Poem of Poems, or Syon's Muse
• Robert Southwell - Saint Peter's Complaint

[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