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1562 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1562.

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Events

  • January 18 – First performance of Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville's play Gorboduc before Queen Elizabeth I of England. It is the first known English tragedy and the first English-language play to employ blank verse.
  • July 12 – Fray Diego de Landa, acting Bishop of Yucatán, burns the Maya codices (sacred books of the Maya) during the Spanish conquest of Yucatán.

    • Prose

  • Magdeburger Centurien (Magdeburg Centuries), volumes V and VI
  • Melchior Cano – De Locis theologicis (posthumously published)
  • Petrus Ramus – Grammaire française
  • Richard Smyth – De Missa Sacrificio
  • Jacques de la Taille – Maniére de faire des vers en français comme en grec et en Latin (How to make verse in French like that in Greek and Latin)

    • Drama

  • Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville – Gorboduc

    • Poetry

  • Arthur Brooke – The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet

    • Births

  • January 20 – Ottavio Rinuccini, Italian poet (died 1621)
  • January 31 (bapt.) – Edward Blount, English publisher (died 1632)
  • March 27 – Jacob Gretser, German Jesuit writer (died 1625)
  • August – Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola, Spanish poet and historian (died 1631)
  • November 25 – Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and dramatist (died 1635)
  • Unknown dates
  • Samuel Daniel, English poet (died 1619)
  • Johann Mechtel, German chronicler (died c. 1631)

    • Deaths

  • July 23 – Götz von Berlichingen, German knight immortalized by Goethe (born c. 1480)
  • September 5 – Katharina Zell, Protestant writer (born c. 1497)
  • November 6 – Achille Bocchi, Italian humanist writer (born 1488)
  • November 12 – Pietro Martire Vermigli, Italian theologian (born 1499)
  • Probable year – George Cavendish, English biographer (born 1494)

    • References

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