1585 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1585.

Events

January 6 – Claude Favre de Vaugelas, French grammarian (died 1650)
January 31 – Daniel Schwenter, German Orientalist, polymath, poet and librarian (died 1636)
March 16 – Gerbrand Bredero, Dutch poet and playwright (died 1618)
June 24 – Johannes Lippius, German Protestant theologian, philosopher, and theorist of music (died 1612)
October 11 – Johann Heermann, German poet (died 1647)
December 4 – John Cotton, English-born American theologian and minister (died 1652)
December 13 – William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet (died 1649)
Unknown date
- Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland, née Elizabeth Tanfield, English poet, translator and dramatist (died 1639)
- Diego Jiménez de Enciso, Spanish dramatist (died 1634)

January – Anthony Gilby, English Puritan and Bible translator (born c. 1510)
February 6 – Edmund Plowden, English lawyer and theorist (born 1518)
February 13 – Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit Biblical commentator (born 1515)
March 10 – Rembert Dodoens, Flemish botanist (born 1517)
June 4 – Muretus, French humanist poet and writer in Latin (born 1526)
June 20 – Christian Kruik van Adrichem, Dutch Catholic theologian (born 1533)
July 30 – Christian Schesaus, German humanist poet (born 1535)
September 1 – Alexander Arbuthnot, Scottish printer (year of birth unknown)
December 8 – Piero Vettori, Italian humanist philologist and writer (born 1499)
December 27 – Pierre de Ronsard, French poet (born 1524)
Unknown date – Molanus, Flemish theologian of the Counter Reformation (born 1533)

↑ Schoenbaum, Samuel (1991). Shakespeare's Lives. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-818618-5.
↑ Schoenbaum, Samuel (1987). William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life (Revised ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-505161-0.

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