16th century in literature
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- | [[Image:Clément Marot.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Blazon of the Ugly Tit]]'' ([[1535]]) by [[Clément Marot]]]] | + | #redirect[[16th century]] |
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- | ==New books== | + | |
- | :[[1501]] - ''The Book of [[Margery Kempe]]'' (posthumous) | + | |
- | :[[1503]] - ''[[The Thrissill and the Rois]]'' - [[William Dunbar]] | + | |
- | :[[1505]] - ''[[The Passtyme of Pleasure]]'' and ''[[The Temple of Glass]]'' - [[Stephen Hawes]] | + | |
- | :[[1508]] - ''[[The Goldyn Targe]]'' - [[William Dunbar]] | + | |
- | :[[1509]] - ''[[In Praise of Folly]]'' - [[Erasmus]] | + | |
- | :[[1512]] - ''[[Fulgens and Lucrece]]'' - [[Henry Medwall]] | + | |
- | :[[1513]] - First translation of [[Virgil|Virgil's]] ''[[Aeneid]]'' into [[English language]] (Scots dialect) by [[Gavin Douglas]] | + | |
- | :1514-15 - ''Sofonisba'' - [[Gian Giorgio Trissino]] | + | |
- | :[[1515]] - '' The New Chronicles of England and France'' by Robert Fabyan | + | |
- | : about [[1516]] - ''[[Utopia (Novel)|Utopia]]'' by [[Thomas More]] | + | |
- | :[[1517]] - [[Francysk Skaryna]]'s [[Bible translation]] and printing | + | |
- | :[[1526]] - [[William Tyndale]]'s [[Bible translation]] | + | |
- | :[[1527]] - ''Historia Scotorum'' - [[Hector Boece]] | + | |
- | :[[1531]] - ''De trinitatis erroribus ("On the Errors of the Trinity")'' - [[Michael Servetus]] | + | |
- | :[[1532]] - ''[[The Prince]]'' by [[Niccolò Machiavelli]] | + | |
- | :[[1534]] - [[Martin Luther]]'s [[Bible translation]] | + | |
- | :[[1535]] - ''[[Huon of Bordeaux]]'' - [[John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners]] | + | |
- | :[[1538]] - ''Les Angoisses douloureuses qui procèdent d'amours'' - [[Hélisenne de Crenne]] | + | |
- | :[[1539]] - ''The Castel of Helth'' - Sir [[Thomas Elyot]] | + | |
- | :[[1540]] - ''Historia Scotorum'' of [[Hector Boece]], translated into vernacular Scots by [[John Bellenden]] at the special request of [[James V of Scotland]] | + | |
- | :[[1541]] - ''Baptistes'' and ''Jephtha'' - [[George Buchanan (humanist)|George Buchanan]] | + | |
- | :[[1542]] - ''The Union of the Two Noble and Illustrate Famelies of Lancastre & Yorke'' - [[Edward Hall]] | + | |
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- | :[[1543]] | + | |
- | *''[[De humani corporis fabrica|De humani corporis fabrica libri septem]]'' ''(On the Fabric of the Human body in Seven Books)'' – [[Vesalius|Andreas Vesalius]] | + | |
- | *''[[De revolutionibus orbium coelestium]]'' ''(On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres)'' – [[Nicolaus Copernicus]] | + | |
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- | :[[1545]] | + | |
- | *''Toxophilus'' - [[Roger Ascham]] | + | |
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- | :[[1547]] | + | |
- | *''The Simple Words of Catechism'' - [[Martynas Mažvydas]] (first printed book in Lithuanian language) | + | |
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- | :[[1549]] | + | |
- | *''Johannes der Täufer (St. John Baptist)'' - [[Johannes Aal]] | + | |
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- | :[[1552]] - ''[[Libellus de Medicinalibus Indorum Herbis]] (Little Book of the Medicinal Herbs of the Indians)'', composed in [[Nahuatl language|Nahuatl]] by [[Martín de la Cruz]] and translated into [[Latin language|Latin]] by [[Juan Badiano]]. | + | |
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- | :[[1553]] | + | |
- | *(about 1553) – ''[[Gammer Gurton's Needle]]'' and ''[[Ralph Roister Doister]]'', the first comedies written in the [[English language]] | + | |
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- | :[[1558]] | + | |
- | *''[[Heptameron]]'' by Marguerite de Navarre | + | |
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- | :[[1559]] | + | |
- | *The [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabethan]] version of the [[Book of Common Prayer]] of the [[Church of England]], which remained in use until the mid-17th century and was the first English Prayer Book in America. | + | |
- | *[[Jorge de Montemayor]] - ''Diana'' | + | |
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- | :[[1560]] | + | |
- | *''[[Geneva Bible]]'' - [[William Whittingham]], [[Anthony Gilby]], [[Thomas Sampson]] | + | |
- | *''Jules César'' - [[Jacques Grévin]] | + | |
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- | :[[1562]] | + | |
- | *''Bullein's Bulwarke of Defence againste all Sicknes, Sornes, and Woundes'' - [[William Bullein]] | + | |
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- | :[[1563]] | + | |
- | *''[[Foxe's Book of Martyrs]]'' - [[John Foxe]] | + | |
- | :[[1576]] | + | |
- | *''[[Six livres de la République]]'' - [[Jean Boudin]] | + | |
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- | :[[1577]] | + | |
- | *''The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Irelande'' - [[Raphael Holinshed]] | + | |
- | *''The History of Travayle in the West and East Indies'' - [[Richard Eden]] | + | |
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- | :[[1578]] | + | |
- | *''A True Discourse of the Late Voyages of Discoverie…under the Conduct of [[Martin Frobisher]]'' - [[George Best (author)|George Best]] | + | |
- | *''Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit'' - [[John Lyly]] | + | |
- | *''First Fruits'' - [[John Florio]] | + | |
- | *''Smithus, vel Musarum lachrymae'' - [[Gabriel Harvey]] | + | |
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- | :[[1579]] | + | |
- | *''Honest Excuses'' - [[Thomas Lodge]] | + | |
- | *''The Schoole of Abuse'' - [[Stephen Gosson]] | + | |
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- | :[[1582]] | + | |
- | *''Divers Voyages'' - [[Richard Hakluyt]] | + | |
- | *''Rerum Scoticarum Historia'' - [[George Buchanan (humanist)|George Buchanan]] | + | |
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- | :[[1583]] | + | |
- | *''The Anatomy of Abuses'' - [[Philip Stubbes]] | + | |
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- | :[[1584]] | + | |
- | *''The Araygnement of Paris'' - [[George Peele]] | + | |
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- | :[[1585]] | + | |
- | *''[[La Galatea]]'' - [[Miguel de Cervantes]] | + | |
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- | :[[1586]] | + | |
- | *''A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia'' - [[Thomas Hariot]] | + | |
- | *''Historie of the Reformatioun of Religioun within the Realms of Scotland'' - [[John Knox]] | + | |
- | *''The Raigne of Edward III'' - anonymous, attributed by some to [[William Shakespeare]] | + | |
- | *''The Arte of English Poesie'' - attributed to [[George Puttenham]] | + | |
- | *''Primera parte de la Angélica'' - [[Luis Barahona de Soto]] | + | |
- | *''Pappe with an hatchet, alias a figge for my Godsonne'' - [[John Lyly]] | + | |
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- | :[[1588]] | + | |
- | *''The Anatomie of Absurditie'' - [[Thomas Nashe]] | + | |
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- | :[[1590]] | + | |
- | *''An Almond for a Parrat'' - [[Thomas Nashe]] | + | |
- | *''Rosalynde'' - [[Thomas Lodge]] | + | |
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- | :[[1592]] | + | |
- | *''Groatsworth of Wit'' - [[Robert Greene (16th century)|Robert Greene]] | + | |
- | *''Foure Letters and certaine Sonnets'' - [[Gabriel Harvey]] | + | |
- | *''[[Nine Worthies of London]]'' - [[Richard Johnson (16th century)|Richard Johnson ]] | + | |
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- | :[[1594]] | + | |
- | *''Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie'' - [[Richard Hooker (theologian)|Richard Hooker]] | + | |
- | *''The Seamans Secrets'' - Sir [[John Davys]] | + | |
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- | :[[1595]] | + | |
- | *''An Apologie for Poetrie'' - Sir [[Philip Sidney]] (posthumous) | + | |
- | *''Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia'' - [[Thomas Harriot]] | + | |
- | *''Colin Clouts Come Home Againe'' - [[Edmund Spenser]] | + | |
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- | :[[1596]] | + | |
- | *''The Civell Warres of Edward the Second and the Barrons'' - [[Michael Drayton]] | + | |
- | *''The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Beautiful Empyre of Guiana'' - Sir [[Walter Raleigh]] | + | |
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- | :[[1597]] | + | |
- | *''Englands Heroicall Epistles'' - [[Michael Drayton]] | + | |
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- | :[[1598]] | + | |
- | *''Palladis Tamia, Wits Treasury'' - [[Francis Meres]] | + | |
- | *''Politeuphuia (Wits' Commonwealth)'' - [[John Bodenham]] | + | |
- | *''Survey of London'' - [[John Stow]] | + | |
- | *''The Trew Law of Free Monarchies'' - King [[James VI of Scotland]] | + | |
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- | :[[1599]] | + | |
- | *''[[The Shoemaker's Holiday]]'' - [[Thomas Dekker]] | + | |
- | *''[[Patient Grissel]]'' - [[Thomas Dekker]], [[Henry Chettle]], and [[William Haughton]] | + | |
- | *''Wits' Theater'' - [[John Bodenham]] | + | |
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- | ==New drama== | + | |
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- | :[[1541]] | + | |
- | *''[[Orbecche]]'' - [[Giovanni Battista Giraldi]] | + | |
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- | :[[1562]] | + | |
- | *[[Gorboduc (play)|''Gorboduc'']] - [[Thomas Norton]] and [[Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset|Thomas Sackville]] | + | |
- | *''Jack Juggler'' - anonymous, sometimes attributed to [[Nicholas Udall]] | + | |
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- | :[[1573]] | + | |
- | * ''[[Aminta]]'' - [[Torquato Tasso]] | + | |
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- | :[[1582]] | + | |
- | * ''Il pastor fido'' - [[Giovanni Battista Guarini]] | + | |
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- | :[[1584]] | + | |
- | *''Campaspe'' - [[John Lyly]] | + | |
- | *''Sapho and Phao'' - John Lyly | + | |
- | *''The Three Ladies of London'' - [[Robert Wilson (dramatist)|Robert Wilson]] (published) | + | |
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- | :[[1588]] | + | |
- | *''[[The Battle of Alcazar]]'' - [[George Peele]] (performed) | + | |
- | *''Endymion'' - John Lyly | + | |
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- | :[[1590]] | + | |
- | *''[[Famous Chronicle of King Edward the First]]'' - [[George Peele]] | + | |
- | * ''[[Tamburlaine (play)|Tamburlaine]],'' - [[Christopher Marlowe]] (both parts published) | + | |
- | *''The Three Lords and Three Ladies of London'' - [[Robert Wilson (dramatist)|Robert Wilson]] (published) | + | |
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- | :[[1591]] | + | |
- | *''[[The Troublesome Reign of King John]]'' - Anonymous (published) | + | |
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- | :[[1592]] | + | |
- | *''[[Henry VI, Part 1]]'', ''[[Henry VI, Part 2|Part 2]]'', ''[[Henry VI, Part 3|Part 3]]'' - [[William Shakespeare]] | + | |
- | *''[[The Spanish Tragedy]]'' - [[Thomas Kyd]] | + | |
- | *''[[Arden of Faversham]]'' - anonymous (previously attributed to Shakespeare) | + | |
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- | :[[1594]] | + | |
- | *''[[The Battle of Alcazar]]'' - [[George Peele]] (published) | + | |
- | *''Cleopatra'' - [[Samuel Daniel]] | + | |
- | *''The Cobbler's Prophecy'' - [[Robert Wilson (dramatist)|Robert Wilson]] (published) | + | |
- | *''Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay'' - [[Robert Greene (16th century)|Robert Greene]] (published) | + | |
- | *''A Looking Glass for London and England'' - [[Thomas Lodge]] & Robert Greene (published) | + | |
- | *''Orlando Furioso'' - Robert Greene (published) | + | |
- | *''Romeo and Juliet'' -William Shakespeare | + | |
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- | :[[1595]] | + | |
- | *''[[Locrine]]'' - Anonymous (published) | + | |
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- | :[[1597]] | + | |
- | *''[[The Isle of Dogs (play)|The Isle of Dogs]]'' - [[Thomas Nashe]] & [[Ben Jonson]] | + | |
- | *''[[Richard II (play)|Richard II]]'' - William Shakespeare | + | |
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- | :[[1598]] | + | |
- | *''[[Every Man in His Humour]]'' - [[Ben Jonson]] | + | |
- | *''The Scottish Historie of James the Fourth'' - Robert Greene (published) | + | |
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- | :[[1599]] | + | |
- | *''[[Every Man Out of His Humour]]'' - [[Ben Jonson]] | + | |
- | *''[[Henry V (play)|Henry V]]'' - [[William Shakespeare]] | + | |
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- | ==New poetry== | + | |
- | *[[1514]] – [[Francesco Maria Molzo]] translates ''Aeneid'' into Italian, in consecutive unrhymed verse (forerunner of [[Blank verse]]) | + | |
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- | *[[1557]] – [[Giovanni Battista Giraldi]] – ''Ercole'' | + | |
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- | *[[1590]] – [[Philip Sidney|Sir Philip Sidney]] – ''[[Arcadia]]'' | + | |
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- | *[[1591]] – [[Philip Sidney|Sir Philip Sidney]] – ''[[Astrophel and Stella]]'' (published posthumously) | + | |
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- | :[[1592]] | + | |
- | *[[Henry Constable]] – ''Diana'' | + | |
- | *[[Michael Drayton]] – ''The Shepherd's Garland'' | + | |
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- | *[[1593]] – [[Michael Drayton]] – ''Peirs Gaveston'' | + | |
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- | *[[1595]] – [[Thomas Campion]] – ''Poemata'' | + | |
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- | :[[1596]] | + | |
- | *[[John Davies (poet)|Sir John Davies]] – ''Orchestra, or a Poeme of Dauncing'' | + | |
- | *[[Edmund Spenser]] – ''[[The Faerie Queene]]'' | + | |
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- | :[[1599]] | + | |
- | *[[John Davies (poet)|Sir John Davies]] – ''Hymnes of Astraea'' | + | |
- | *[[John Davies (poet)|Sir John Davies]] – ''Nosce Teipsum'' | + | |
- | *[[George Peele]] – ''The Love of King David and Faire Bethsabe'' | + | |
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- | ==Births== | + | |
- | * [[1503]] - [[Thomas Wyatt]] | + | |
- | * [[1510]] - [[Martynas Mažvydas]] | + | |
- | * [[1515]] - [[Roger Ascham]] | + | |
- | * [[1517]] - [[Henry Howard]] | + | |
- | * [[1547]] - [[Miguel de Cervantes]] | + | |
- | * [[1551]] - [[William Camden]] | + | |
- | * [[1554]] - [[Philip Sidney]] | + | |
- | * [[1555]] - [[Lancelot Andrewes]] | + | |
- | * [[1558]] - [[Robert Greene (16th century)|Robert Greene]] | + | |
- | * [[1558]] - [[Thomas Kyd]] | + | |
- | * [[1561]] - [[Luís de Góngora y Argote]] | + | |
- | * [[1564]] - [[Christopher Marlowe]] | + | |
- | * [[1564]] - [[William Shakespeare]] | + | |
- | * [[1570]] - [[Robert Aytoun]] | + | |
- | * [[1572]] - [[Ben Jonson]] | + | |
- | * [[1576]] - [[John Marston]] | + | |
- | * [[1577]] - [[Robert Burton (scholar)|Robert Burton]] | + | |
- | * [[1581]] - [[Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft]] | + | |
- | * [[1583]] - [[Philip Massinger]] | + | |
- | * [[1587]] - [[Joost van den Vondel]] | + | |
- | * [[1594]] - [[James Howell]] | + | |
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- | ==Deaths== | + | |
- | * [[1502]] - [[Henry Medwall]] | + | |
- | * [[1513]] - [[Robert Fabyan]] | + | |
- | * [[1552]] - [[Alexander Barclay]] | + | |
- | * [[1563]] - [[John Bale]] | + | |
- | * [[1563]] - [[Martynas Mažvydas]] | + | |
- | * [[1568]] - [[Roger Ascham]] | + | |
- | * [[1577]] - [[George Gascoigne]] | + | |
- | * [[1592]] - [[Robert Greene (16th century)|Robert Greene]] | + | |
- | * [[1593]] - [[Christopher Marlowe]] | + | |
- | * [[1594]] - [[Thomas Kyd]] | + | |
- | * [[1595]] - [[Luis Barahona de Soto]] | + | |
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Current revision
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