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1566 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1566.

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Events

  • September 2 – At a performance of Richard Edwardes' play Palamon and Arcite at Oxford in the presence of Queen Elizabeth I of England the stage collapses causing three deaths. The show goes on and "the Queen laughed heartily thereat".

    • Prose

  • Historia Caroli Magni (12th century forged chronicle – first printing, at Frankfurt)
  • Magdeburg Centuries, volume IX
  • François de Belleforest (translated from Matteo Bandello) – Histoires tragiques begins publication)
  • Diego de Landa – Relación de las cosas de Yucatán
  • William Painter – Palace of Pleasure
  • The Flower Triod (Триод Цветни)

    • Drama

  • George Gascoigne – Supposes (translation into English prose from Ludovico Ariosto's I suppositi, for performance by gentlemen of Gray's Inn in London)
  • (with Francis Kinwelmersh) – Jocasta (translation from Lodovico Dolce's Giocasta, a version of Euripides' The Phoenician Women, for performance by gentlemen of Gray's Inn)
  • Gismund of Salerne (written and produced for Queen Elizabeth I of England by the gentlemen of Inner Temple in London)

    • Poetry

  • See 1566 in poetry

    • Births

  • September 1 – Edward Alleyn, English actor (died 1626)
  • Unknown date – John Hoskins, English poet (died 1638)

    • Deaths

  • January 6 – Jan Utenhove, Flemish translator (born 1516)
  • March – António de Gouveia, Portuguese legal writer and humanist (born c. 1505)
  • April 25 – Louise Labé, French poet (born c. 1520)
  • July 13 – Thomas Hoby, English translator (born 1530)
  • October 10 – Hentenius, Flemish biblical commentator (born 1499)
  • October 31 – Richard Edwardes, English poet and dramatist (born 1525)
  • Unknown date – Alexius Pedemontanus, Italian physician and alchemist, author of a "book of secrets" (born c. 1500)

    • In literature

  • Hendrik Conscience – In 't Wonderjaar 1566 (1837)

    • References

    1566 in literature Wikipedia
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