1587 in literature

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List of years in literature (table)
... 1577 ^. 1578 ^. 1579 ^. 1580 ^. 1581 ^. 1582 ^. 1583 ... 1584 1585 1586 -1587- 1588 1589 1590 ... 1591 ^. 1592 ^. 1593 ^. 1594 ^. 1595 ^. 1596 ^. 1597 ...
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Events

April 14 - A clandestine Roman Catholic printing press is discovered in a cave on the Little Orme on the North Wales coast where it has been used by the recusant Robert Pugh (squire of Penrhyn Hall) and his chaplain Father William Davies to print the first part of Y Drych Cristianogawl ("The Christian Mirror"), the first book to be printed in Wales. Attributed to "G.R. of Milan" (Gruffydd Robert or perhaps Robert Gwyn (c. 1540/50-1592/1604)), the book is given a false imprint of "Rouen, 1585".^[1]
Autumn - Poet Torquato Tasso travels to Rome to stay with his friend Cardinal Scipione Gonzaga, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.
October 31 - Leiden University Library opens its doors after its founding in 1575.
Late (probable date) - The first part of Christopher Marlowe's drama Tamburlaine the Great is performed in London by the Admiral's Men with Edward Alleyn playing the lead.
The Rose theatre is built by Philip Henslowe in Southwark on the south bank of the River Thames in London.
The chapbook Historia von D. Johann Fausten, printed by Johann Spies in Frankfurt, is the first published version of the Faust story.

George Gifford - A discourse of the subtill practises of deuilles by witches and sorcerers
Raphael Holinshed - Holinshed's Chronicles, 2nd edition, revised
John Penry - The Æquity of an Humble Supplication
William Rankins - A Mirror of Monsters

June 21 - Kaspar von Barth, German philologist (died 1658)
October 17 - Nathan Field, English dramatist (died 1620)
November 17 - Joost van den Vondel, Dutch dramatist (died 1679)
date unknown
- Michael Alford, English Jesuit writer (died 1652)
- Francesco Angeloni, Italian historian (died 1652)
- Francis Kynaston, English poet (died 1642)

March 15 - Kaspar Olevianus, German Protestant theologian (born 1536)
April 18 - John Foxe, martyrologist (born 1517)
September 19 - Pamelius, Belgian theologian (born 1536)
November - Mother and daughter
- Madeleine Des Roches, French poet and author (born c. 1520)
- Catherine Des Roches, French poet and author (born 1542)
date unknown
- Dudley Fenner, English theologian (born c. 1558)

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