1599 in literature

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Events

January 13 - Edmund Spenser dies in London, followed by burial in Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey.
Spring/Summer - Globe Theatre built in Southwark, London, utilising material from The Theatre.^[1]
June 4 - The Bishops' Ban of 1599: Middleton's Microcynicon: Six Snarling Satires and Marston's Scourge of Villainy are publicly burned as the English ecclesiastical authorities crack down on the craze for satire of the past year. The Bishop of London and the Archbishop of Canterbury tighten their enforcement of the existing censorship regime. Earlier, minor works like pamphlets and plays were being published only with the approval of the Wardens of the Stationers Company, and without ecclesiastical review; this arrangement is terminated.
June 7 - John Day kills fellow playwright Henry Porter, allegedly in self-defence.
September 21 - First recorded performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar at the Globe Theatre in London, reported by Swiss traveller Thomas Platter the Younger.
Late - War of the Theatres: Satire, being prohibited in print, breaks out in the London theatres. In Histriomastix, Marston satirizes Jonson’s pride through the character Chrisoganus; Jonson responds by satirizing Marstons's wordy style in Every Man Out of His Humour, acted by the Lord Chamberlain's Men.^[2]
King James VI of Scotland arranges for a company of English players to erect a playhouse and perform in his country.^[3]

Shakespeare's Globe theatre (modern replica)

Anonymous
- (Robert Greene?) - George a Greene, the Pinner of Wakefield published
- A Larum for London (or c.1602?)
- Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes published (written c.1570?)
- A Warning for Fair Women published
Thomas Dekker
- Old Fortunatus
- Patient Grissel (with Henry Chettle and William Haughton)
- The Shoemaker's Holiday
Michael Drayton, Richard Hathwaye, Anthony Munday, & Robert Wilson - Sir John Oldcastle
Robert Greene - Alphonsus King of Aragon published
Ben Jonson - Every Man Out of His Humour
Hermann Kirchner - Coriolanus tragicomica
John Marston - Antonio and Mellida
- Histriomastix
- Jack Drum's Entertainment
Henry Porter - The Two Angry Women of Abingdon published
William Shakespeare - As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V and Julius Caesar (approximate date)^[1]

May 30 – Samuel Bochart, French Biblical scholar (died 1667)
July 23 – Stephanius, Danish royal historiographer (died 1650)
August 14 – Méric Casaubon, English classicist (died 1671)
October 31 – Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English statesman and writer (died 1680)
Unknown date – Madeleine de Souvré, marquise de Sablé, French writer of maxims (died 1678)

↑ 1.0 1.1 Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 233–238. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
↑ A reverse sequence of events is argued in: Bednarz, James (1993). "Marston's Subversion of Shakespeare and Jonson: Histriomastix and the War of the Theaters". Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England (New York: AMS Press) 6: 103–28.
↑ Carpenter, S. (2011). "Scottish drama until 1650". In Brown, I., ed. The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Drama. Edinburgh University Press. p. 21. ISBN 0748641076.