1593 in literature

none July 2013 1593 literature This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1593. Events Ongoing – London theatres remain closed for almost the whole year as a result of the previous year's outbreak of bubonic plague. In the summer, Edward Alleyn and other actors make a provincial tour. Some performances take place in the winter, when plague tends to abate. Lord Strange's Men act three times in January a play called Titus – perhaps Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus. After April – William Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis probably becomes his first published work, printed from his own manuscript. In his lifetime it will be his most frequently reprinted work: at least nine times.Cox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm May 5 – "Dutch church libel" bills posted in London threaten Protestant refugees from France and the Netherlands, alluding to Christopher Marlowe's plays. May 12 – The English dramatist Thomas Kyd is arrested over the "Dutch church libel". "Atheist" literature found in his home is claimed to be Marlowe's. May 18 – A warrant for the arrest of Christopher Marlowe is issued. On May 20 he presents himself to the Privy Council. May 29 – The Welsh-born Protestant John Penry is executed for involvement in the Marprelate Controversy.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/233 registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 233–238 May 30 – Christopher Marlowe is stabbed to death by a speculator, Ingram Frizer, in a dispute over a bill at a lodging house in Deptford kept by the widow Eleanor Bull.Leslie Hotson John Leslie Hotson The Death of Christopher Marlowe https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.75347 London Nonesuch Press 1925 New books Prose Bible of Kralice, first complete translation of Bible into Czech Fray Juan de Plasencia – Doctrina Christiana, first book published in the Philippines, in Spanish and Tagalog John Eliot – Ortho-epia Gallica Claudius Hollyband (Claude de Sainliens) – A Dictionarie French and English Richard Hooker – Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie Antonio Possevino – Bibliotheca selecta Drama Daniel Cramer – Plagium Thomas Kyd (probably, perhaps with Shakespeare) – The Raigne of King Edward the Third (approximate date)Shakespeare, William William Shakespeare Collaborative Plays The RSC Shakespeare Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan 2013 978-1-137-27144-0 etal George Peele – Famous Chronicle of King Edward the First George Peele (possibly) – The Life and Death of Jack Straw (first published) Poetry 1593 in poetry Barnabe Barnes – Parthenophil and Parthenophone Anthony Chute – Beauty Dishonoured, written under the title of Shore's wife Michael Drayton Idea: The Shepherd's Garland The Legend of Piers Gaveston William Shakespeare – Venus and Adonis Thomas Watson (posthumously, as T. W.) – The Tears of Fancie, or Love Disdained (sonnets) Births April 3 – George Herbert, Welsh-born poet (died 1633) May 20 – Salomo Glassius, German theologian (died 1656) Unknown date – Robert Creighton, Scottish classicist, politician and bishop (died 1672) Approximate year – Aodh Buidhe Mac an Bhaird (Hugh Ward), Irish poet and hagiographer (died 1635) Deaths January 12 – Amadis Jamyn, French poet (born 1538) February 6 – Jacques Amyot, French translator (born 1513) May 30 – Christopher Marlowe, English dramatist and poet (born 1564) August 19 – Antonio Veneziano, Italian poet writing in Sicilian (born 1543) Unknown date – Chŏng Ch'ŏl, Korean poet and statesman (born 1536) References 30em