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1594 in literature
Summary
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of
1594
.
List of years in literature
(
table
)
…
1584
1585
1586
1587
1588
1589
1590
1591
1592
1593
1594
1595
1596
1597
1598
1599
1600
1601
1602
1603
1604
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Art
Archaeology
Architecture
Literature
Music
Philosophy
Science
+...
Events
edit
c. February – The
Shakespeare
play
Titus Andronicus
is the first to be published, anonymously in London. His poem
The Rape of Lucrece
is published after May.
Spring – The London theaters reopen after two years of general inactivity due to the
bubonic plague
epidemic of 1592–94. Many actors who used to be
Lord Strange's Men
form a new company, the
Lord Chamberlain's Men
, under the patronage of
Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon
,
Lord Chamberlain
of England at the time.
April 6
and
April 9
– Members of
Queen Elizabeth's Men
and Sussex's Men perform the early
King Leir
at
the Rose Theatre
in London.
May 14
– The reorganized
Admiral's Men
begin performances with
Christopher Marlowe
's
The Jew of Malta
.
October – The first firmly recorded performance of
Marlowe
's
The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus
is given by the Admiral's Men with
Edward Alleyn
in the title role.
Christmas – Students of
Gray's Inn
in London perform
The Maske of Proteus and the Adamantine Rock
before
Queen Elizabeth
. Written by Francis Davison with music by
Thomas Campion
, it is probably the first staged
masque
in England.
[1]
December 28
– Shakespeare's
The Comedy of Errors
is performed at Gray's Inn.
unknown date
–
Franciscus Gomarus
becomes professor of theology at
Leiden University
.
New books
edit
Prose
edit
Sir
John Davys
–
The Seamans Secrets
Richard Hooker
–
Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
Thomas Nashe
–
The Unfortunate Traveller
Drama
edit
Anonymous
The Famous Victories of Henry V
(first recorded)
A Knack to Know an Honest Man
Selimus
published
The Taming of a Shrew
(published)
The True Tragedy of Richard III
(published)
Samuel Daniel
–
Cleopatra
Lope de Vega
–
El maestro de danzar
(The Dancing Master)
Robert Greene
(published)
Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay
Orlando Furioso
Thomas Lodge
and Robert Greene –
A Looking Glass for London
(published)
Thomas Lodge –
The Wounds of Civil War
(published)
John Lyly
–
Mother Bombie
(published)
Christopher Marlowe
(k. 1593)
Edward II
(earliest known edition)
The Massacre at Paris
(earliest edition, undated, probable year)
(with
Thomas Nashe
?) –
Dido, Queen of Carthage
(published)
William Shakespeare
:
The Comedy of Errors
(performed)
Titus Andronicus
(published)
Robert Wilson
–
The Cobbler's Prophecy
(published)
Poetry
edit
Richard Barnfield
–
The Affectionate Shepherd
George Chapman
–
The Shadow of Night
William Shakespeare
–
The Rape of Lucrece
Thomas Storer
–
Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey
Henry Willobie
–
Willobie His Avisa
Births
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January 24
–
Pierre de Marca
, French historian and bishop (died
1662
)
March 25
–
Maria Tesselschade Visscher
, Dutch poet (died
1649
)
September 30
–
Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant
, French poet (died
1661
)
Unknown date
–
John Spelman
, English historian (died
1643
)
Deaths
edit
c.
February 7
–
Barnabe Googe
, English poet (born
1540
)
April 29
–
Thomas Cooper
, English lexicographer, controversialist and bishop (born c. 1517)
May 30
–
Bálint Balassi
, Hungarian lyric poet (born
1554
)
June 3
–
John Aylmer
, English constitutionalist, translator and bishop (born
1521
)
July –
Girolamo Mei
, Italian historian (born
1519
)
c.
July 16
–
Thomas Kyd
, English dramatist (born
1558
)
[2]
November 29
–
Alonso de Ercilla
, Spanish noble, soldier and epic poet (born
1533
)
References
edit
^
Orgel, Stephen (1965).
The Jonsonian Masque
. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 9.
^
Christopher Marlowe; R. H. Case (1966).
The Works and Life of Christopher Marlowe
. Gordian Press. p. 55.