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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.
  • unknown dates
  • The composer Richard Farrant opens the first Blackfriars Theatre in London, presenting plays performed by the Children of the Chapel.
  • 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 published

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)
  • May 27 – Caspar Schoppe, German controversialist (died 1649)
  • June 6 – Giovanni Diodati, Bible translator (died 1649)
  • October – John Marston, English dramatist and poet (died 1634)
  • October 30 – Enrico Caterino Davila, Italian historian (died 1631)
  • unknown dates
  • William Ames, English philosopher (died 1633)
  • 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)
  • February 10 – Wilhelm Xylander, German classical scholar (born 1532)
  • 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)
  • Lancelot Ridley, English theologian
  • Mavro Vetranović, Croatian Benedictine poet and author (born 1482)

References