1598 in literature

none 1598 literature July 2020 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1598. Events Before September – A second edition of Love's Labour's Lost appears in London as the first known printing of a Shakespeare play to have his name on the title page ("Newly corrected and augmented by W. Shakespere"). February 23 – Thomas Bodley refounds the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford. March 28 – Philip Henslowe contracts Edward Alleyn and Thomas Heywood to act for the Admiral's Men in London for two years.Henslowe's Diary. April 30 – A comedy, by an anonymous playwright about an expedition of soldiers, is the very first theatrical performance in North America, staged near El Paso for Spanish colonists.Clifton Daniel Chronicle of America Chronicle publication 1989 39 0-13-133745-9 May 3 – The Spanish playwright Lope de Vega marries for the second time, to Juana de Guardo. c. May – The premiėre of William Haughton's Englishmen for My Money, or, A Woman Will Have Her Will introduces what is seen as the first city comedy, probably by the Admiral's Men at London's Rose Theatre.Andrew Stott Comedy London Routledge 2005 9780415299336 44 c. July/September – Ben Jonson's comedy of humours Every Man in His Humour is probably first performed, by the Lord Chamberlain's Men at the Curtain Theatre, London, perhaps with Shakespeare playing Kno'well.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 233–238 https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/233 September 7 – Francis Meres' Palladis Tamia, Wits Treasury is registered for publication, including the first list and critical discussion of Shakespeare's works; he also mentions that Shakespeare's "sugar'd sonnets" are circulating privately. September 22 – Ben Jonson kills actor Gabriel Spenser in a duel in London and is briefly held in Newgate Prison, but escapes capital punishment by pleading benefit of clergy.Helen Ostovich, Holger Schott Syme, Andrew Griffin, Locating the Queen's Men, 1583-1603: Material Practices and Conditions of Playing, Ashgate Publishing, 2009, p. 91. October – Edmund Spenser's castle, Kilcolman Castle near Doneraile in Ireland, is burned down by native forces under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone. Spenser leaves for London shortly after. November 25 – Henry Chettle is paid for "mending" a play about Robin Hood to make it suitable for performance at court.Stephen Knight Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography https://books.google.com/books?id=dPtpkU1WSbcC&pg=PA216 2003 Cornell University Press 0-8014-3885-3 216 December 28 – London's The Theatre is dismantled.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 unknown dates Lancelot Andrewes turns down the bishoprics of Ely and Salisbury. The English poet Barnabe Barnes is prosecuted in the Star Chamber for attempted murder of one John Browne, first by offering him a poisoned lemon and then by sweetening his wine with sugar laced with mercury sublimate; Browne survives both attempts.John D. Cox, "Barnes, Barnabe (bap. 1571, d. 1609)," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 John Marston's The Metamorphosis of Pigmalion's Image and Certaine Satyres begins a trend in English satirical writing that leads to official suppression in the following year.Arthur F. Kinney David W. Swain Eugene D. Hill William A. Long Tudor England: An Encyclopedia https://books.google.com/books?id=nHasAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA624 17 November 2000 Routledge 978-1-136-74530-0 624 New books Prose John Florio – A World of Words, Italian/English dictionary, the first dictionary published in England to use quotations ("illustrations") for meaning to the words Emanuel Ford – Parismus, the Renowned Prince of Bohemia (first part) King James VI of Scotland – The True Law of Free Monarchies Francis Meres – Palladis TamiaStanley Wells Gary Taylor 1987 William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion Oxford University Press 900-19-812914-9 Merkelis Petkevičius – pl Polski z litewskim katechism John Stow – Survey of LondonPalmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 163–165 0-7126-5616-2 Zhao Shizhen – Shenqipu (3rd century, possible first publication)November 2024 Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer – Enchuyser zeecaertboeck (Enkhuizen book of sea charts) Drama Anonymous The Famous Victories of Henry V earliest known publication Mucedorus published The Pilgrimage to Parnassus (earliest possible date of composition) Jakob Ayrer Von der Erbauung Roms (The Building of Rome) Von der schönen Melusina (Fair Melusina) Samuel Brandon – Virtuous Octavia Henry Chettle, Henry Porter and Ben Jonson – Hot Anger Soon ColdRoslyn Lander Knutson Playing Companies and Commerce in Shakespeare's Time https://books.google.com/books?id=_Mqurh3QxoYC&pg=PA147 26 July 2001 Cambridge University Press 978-1-139-42837-8 147 Robert Greene – The Scottish History of James IV published William Haughton – Englishmen for My Money Ben Jonson – Every Man in His HumourBen Jonson Johanna Procter Martin Butler The Selected Plays of Ben Jonson: Volume 2: The Alchemist, Bartholomew Fair, The New Inn, A Tale of a Tub https://books.google.com/books?id=DTBvvPrJOOUC&pg=PR9 26 May 1989 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-31842-6 9 en Anthony Munday – The Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntingdon Anthony Munday (and Henry Chettle?) – The Death of Robert Earl of Huntingdon Henry Porter – Love Prevented William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part 1 (published) Love's Labour's Lost (published)William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost, 1598 https://books.google.com/books?id=uyDPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PP9 1598 Clarendon Press 9 Poetry Richard Barnfield The Encomium of Lady Pecunia Poems in Divers Humours George Chapman – translation of Homer's Iliad into English Lope de Vega – La Arcadia and La DragonteaLope de Vega Richard W. Tyler A critical edition of Lope de Vega's La corona de Hungría https://books.google.com/books?id=X3oKAQAAMAAJ 1972 Department of Romance Languages, University of North Carolina 186 en Christopher Marlowe – Hero and Leander (completed by Chapman following Marlowe's death)A. H. Bullen, ed., The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3; London, John C. Nimmo, 1885; pp. 3–4; Fredson Bowers, ed., The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe, vol. 2; Cambridge Univ. Press, 1973; pg. 426. John Marston – The Metamorphosis of Pigmalian's Image and The Scourge of Villanie Births March 12 – Guillaume Colletet, French writer (died 1659)Manchester Literary Club Papers of the Manchester Literary Club https://books.google.com/books?id=-CA_AQAAMAAJ 1907 H. Rawson & Company 335 March 13 – Johannes Loccenius, German historian (died 1677) July 29 – Henricus Regius, Dutch philosopher and correspondent of René Descartes (died 1679)Gerrit Arie Lindeboom Descartes and Medicine https://books.google.com/books?id=_W8eAQAAIAAJ 1979 Rodopi 978-90-6203-882-4 22 August 7 – Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet (died 1672)Marina Grut Royal Swedish Ballet: History from 1592 to 1962 https://books.google.com/books?id=0Qf0AAAAMAAJ 2007 Georg Olms 978-3-487-13494-9 12 unknown date – Johann George Moeresius, German poet (died 1657) Deaths January 2 - Morris Kyffin, Welsh soldier and author (born c.1555)s-KYFF-MOR-1555 Kyffin, Morris (c.1555-1598), writer and soldier Glanmor Williams Glanmor Williams 7 July 2020 January 9 – Jasper Heywood, English translator (born 1535) February 27 – Friedrich Dedekind, German theologian (born 1524)John Francis Waller The Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography: A Series of Original Memoirs of Distinguished Men, of All Ages and All Nations https://books.google.com/books?id=TzMOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA49 1857 William Mackenzie, 22 Paternoster Row; Howard Street, Glasgow; South Bridge, Edinburgh 49 April 10 – Jacopo Mazzoni, Italian philosopher (born 1548)October 2021 August – Alexander Montgomerie, outlawed Scottish poet (born c. 1545/1550) December 6 – Paolo Paruta, Venetian historian (born 1540)The Catholic Encyclopedia: New Mexico-Philip Appleton 1911 510 December 15 – Philips van Marnix, lord of Sint-Aldegonde, Dutch statesman and author (born 1540)May King David Leer Ringo William K. Barnarad Supplemental research and history (volume XIV) McDowell Publications for the Freeborn Family Association 2001 24 December 31 – Heinrich Rantzau, German humanist writer (born 1526) unknown date – David Powel, Welsh historian who popularised continuing legends such as that of Prince Madoc (born c. 1549)Margo Todd Todd Margo Powell, Gabriel (bap. 1576, d. 1611) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography subscription Oxford University Press 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22646 26 March 2009 References 30em