1576 in literature

none 1576 literature The following literary events and publications occurred in the year 1576. Events December – James Burbage opens The Theatre, the second permanent public playhouse in London (and the first to have a substantial life – 22 years), ushering in the great age of Elizabethan drama.James Burbage http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/james-burbage.htm Elizabethan Era 28 January 2014 unknown dates The composer Richard Farrant opens the first Blackfriars Theatre in London, presenting plays performed by the Children of the Chapel.Flood W. H. Grattan New Light on Late Tudor Composers: IV. Richard Farrant The Musical Times 65 981 1924-11-01 989 911576 10.2307/911576 The composer Thomas Whythorne writes a Booke of songs and sonetts with longe discourses sett with them, an early example of autobiographical writing in English. New books Prose Jean Bodin – Les Six livres de la République (The Six Books of the Republic) Ulpian Fulwell – Ars adulandi, or, The Art of Flattery (dialogues) Étienne de La Boétie (died 1563) – Discourse on Voluntary Servitude (Discours de la servitude volontaire, published as Le Contr'un) George Pettie – A Petite Palace of Pettie His Pleasure Peter Martyr Vermigli (died 1562; edited by Robert le Maçon) – Loci Communes George Whetstone – The Rocke of Regard Drama Luigi Pasqualigo – Il Fedele George Wapull – The Tide Tarrieth No Man publishedThe Tide Tarrieth No Man 9781161723649 https://books.google.com/books?id=SsZUSwAACAAJ 28 January 2014 Wapull George May 2010 Poetry See 1576 in poetry Tulsidas – Ramcharitmanas The Paradise of Dainty Devices, the most popular of the Elizabethan verse miscellanies Births January 12 – Petrus Scriverius, Dutch historian (died 1660)Petrus Scriverius http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections/436619 Met Museum 28 January 2014 May 27 – Caspar Schoppe, German controversialist (died 1649)Caspar Schoppe http://www.studylight.org/enc/bri/view.cgi?n=6051 Study Light 28 January 2014 23 February 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140223004912/http://www.studylight.org/enc/bri/view.cgi?n=6051 dead June 6 – Giovanni Diodati, Bible translator (died 1649)Giovanni Diodati http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/164088/Giovanni-Diodati Britannica 28 January 2014 October – John Marston, English dramatist and poet (died 1634)John Marston http://www.poemhunter.com/john-marston/ Poem Hunter 28 January 2014 October 30 – Enrico Caterino Davila, Italian historian (died 1631)Enrico Caterino Davila http://www.encyclopedia123.com/D/Davila.html Encyclopedia 123 28 January 2014 unknown dates William Ames, English philosopher (died 1633)William Ames http://www.apuritansmind.com/puritan-favorites/william-ames/ A Puritan's Mind 28 January 2014 Johann Bogermann, Dutch translator (died 1637) Samuel Collins, theologian (died 1651) Charles Fitzgeoffrey, Elizabethan poet (died 1638) Goldastus, Swiss Calvinist historian (died 1635) John Weever, English poet and antiquary (died 1632) Deaths January 19 – Hans Sachs, German poet and dramatist (born 1494)Hans Sachs http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/515273/Hans-Sachs Encyclopædia Britannica 28 January 2014 February 10 – Wilhelm Xylander, German classical scholar (born 1532)Wilhelm Xylander http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803125225579 Oxford Reference 28 January 2014 March 18 – Johann Stössel, German Lutheran theologian (born 1524; died in prison) May 2 – Bartolomé Carranza, Spanish theologian (born 1503) June 30 – Franciscus Sonnius, Flemish theologian (born 1506) October 14 – Konrad Heresbach, Calvinist writer (born 1496) unknown dates Basil Faber, German theologian (born 1520) Aloysius Lilius, Italian philosopher (born c. 1510)The New Encyclopaedia Britannica: Macropaedia (19 v.) https://books.google.com/books?id=FRg8AAAAMAAJ 1983 Encyclopaedia Britannica 978-0-85229-400-0 602 Lancelot Ridley, English theologianCharles Henry Cooper Memorials of Cambridge https://books.google.com/books?id=F9eNcwk2m2gC&pg=PA39 22 March 2012 Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-04394-6 39 Mavro Vetranović, Croatian Benedictine poet and author (born 1482) References 30em