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1588 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1588.

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Events

  • January 1 – The Children of Paul's perform at the court of Queen Elizabeth I of England, probably acting John Lyly's Gallathea.
  • February 2 – The Children of Paul's return to the English court, probably with Lyly's Endymion.
  • February 28 – The gentlemen of Gray's Inn perform Thomas Hughes' play The Misfortunes of Arthur before Queen Elizabeth I of England, at Greenwich Palace.
  • May–December – Lope de Vega serves in the Spanish Armada, where he begins writing his epic poem La Hermosura de Angélica.
  • November – Marprelate Controversy: The first tract by "Martin Marprelate", known as the Epistle, appears at Molesey.
  • Venice's Biblioteca Marciana is completed by Vincenzo Scamozzi on the Piazza San Marco after more than a century of construction following a plan by the late Jacopo Sansovino.
  • John Dee finishes Libri mysteriorum I-XVIII (Spiritual Diaries).
  • Welsh author Morris Kyffin publishes the first translation into English of a comedy by Terence, Andria, in London. It is possibly the first printed English text to include an ellipsis (...) as a mark of omission.
  • Agostino Ramelli publishes Le diverse et artificiose Machine del Capitano Agostino Ramelli, Dal Ponte Della Tresia Ingegniero del Christianissimo Re di Francia et di Pollonia in Paris, including a design for a bookwheel to permit consultation of multiple volumes.
  • 1588–1589 – Earliest probable date for the composition and first performance of Christopher Marlowe's The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus in London.

    • Prose

  • William Allen – An Admonition to the nobility and people of England
  • John Dee – De heptarchia mystica
  • Robert Greene – Pandosto: The Triumph of Time
  • Thomas Hariot – A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
  • Thomas Nashe – The Anatomie of Absurditie
  • William Rankins – The English Ape
  • Welsh Bible (translation by William Morgan)

    • Drama

  • Thomas Hughes – The Misfortunes of Arthur
  • George Peele – The Battle of Alcazar (first performed)

    • Poetry

  • Felipe Fernandez-Armesto – Two Prayers and a Sailor's Lilt Aboard the Spanish Armada
  • Heinrich Meibom – Parodiarum horatianarum libri III et sylvarum libri II
  • Jean de Sponde – Essai de quelques poèmes chrétiens

    • Births

  • April 5 – Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (died 1679)
  • April 15 – Claudius Salmasius (Claude Saumaise), French classicist (died 1653)
  • September 8 – Marin Mersenne, French theologian and philosopher (died 1648)
  • October 16 – Luke Wadding, Irish Franciscan annalist (died 1657)
  • Unknown dates
  • Leonard Digges (writer), English poet and Hispanist (died 1635)
  • Francis Higginson, English-born New England writer (died 1630)
  • Johannes Maccovius (Jan Makovszki), Polish theologian (died 1644)

    • Deaths

  • February 24 – Johann Weyer, Dutch demonologist (born c. 1515)
  • March 29 – Christian Wurstisen, Swiss theologian and historian (born 1544)
  • September 3 – Richard Tarlton, English actor (born 1530)
  • October 2 – Bernardino Telesio, Italian philosopher (born 1509)
  • November 1 – Jean Daurat, French poet (born 1508)
  • Unknown date – Sperone Speroni, Italian scholar and dramatist (born 1500)

    • References

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