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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1584.

Events

  • Master Thomas Giles takes charge of the Children of Paul's, a company of boy actors. This is the start of a close association with the works of John Lyly.
  • London printer John Twyn is hanged, drawn and quartered for producing an edition of Gregory Martin's Catholic A Treatise of Schisme (1578).

New books

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Prose

  • Giordano Bruno – La Cena de le Ceneri (Ash Wednesday Supper)
  • John Dee – 48 Claves angelicae (48 Angelic Keys, written in Kraków)
  • James VI of Scotland – Some Reulis and Cautelis to be observit and eschewit in Scottis poesie
  • David Powel – The Historie of Cambria, now called Wales (first printed history of Wales)
  • Reginald Scot – The Discoverie of Witchcraft
  • Richard Stanihurst – De rebus in Hibernia gestis (Of matters in the history of Ireland)
  • Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer – Spiegel der Zeevaerdt (Mariners' Mirror, English 1588, Latin 1591)

Drama

  • 'A.M.' (probably Anthony Munday) – Fidele and Fortunio
  • Robert Wilson (attributed) – The Three Ladies of London

Poetry

See 1584 in poetry

  • Thomas Watson – Hekatompathia or Passionate Centurie of Love (publication)

Births

  • May – André Duchesne, French geographer and historian (died 1640)
  • August 29 – Patrick Young, Scottish scholar and royal librarian (died 1652)
  • September 15 – Georg Rudolf Weckherlin, German poet (died 1653)
  • December 16 – John Selden, English polymath (died 1654)
  • unknown dates
  • Francis Beaumont, English dramatist and poet (died 1616)
  • Anna Ovena Hoyer, German/Swedish poet (died 1655)
  • Hu Zhengyan, Chinese artist, printmaker, calligrapher and publisher (died 1674)

Deaths

  • February 18 – Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian prose writer (born 1503)
  • March 10 – Thomas Norton, English lawyer, politician and poet (born 1532)
  • June 13 – János Zsámboky, Hungarian humanist, philologist and historian (born 1531)
  • July 23 – John Day, English Protestant printer (born c. 1522)
  • August 12 – Carolus Sigonius, Italian humanist writer (born c. 1524)
  • November 21 – Turrianus, Spanish Jesuit Hellenist and polemicist (born c. 1509)
  • unknown dates
  • Stephen Batman, English translator (date of birth unknown)
  • Gerhard Dorn, Flemish philosopher, translator and polymath (born c. 1530)
  • Alonso Gutiérrez, Spanish philosopher (born c. 1507)

References