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Contents

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

Events

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

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.
Vincentio Saviolo - His practise, in two bookes. The first manual of fence (fencing) to be written in English is published by John Wolfe of London. *PDF Copy available here

New drama

Anonymous - Locrine
Jakob Ayrer - Von der Erbauung Roms ("The Building of Rome")
Gervase Markham - The Most Honorable Tragedy of Sir Richard Grinville
Antoine de Montchrestien - Sophonisbe
William Shakespeare (possible date)
- Richard II
- Romeo and Juliet
- A Midsummer Night's Dream

Poetry

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

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)

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