1599 in literature

1599 in literature

Events

* Undated - Opening of the Globe Theatre.
*June 4 - Middleton's "" and Marston's "Scourge of Villainy" are publicly burned, as ecclesiastical authorities crack down on the craze for satire of the past year. The Bishop of London and the Archbishop of Canterbury tighten their enforcement of the existing censorship regime. Earlier, minor works like pamphlets and plays were being published only with the approval of the Wardens of the Stationers Company, and without ecclesiastical review; this arrangement is terminated. The War of the Theatres breaks out as a result of the "bishops' ban".
* June 7 - John Day kills fellow playwright Henry Porter, allegedly in self-defence.
* September 21 - First recorded performance of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" at the Globe Theatre in London, reported by Swiss traveller Thomas Platter.

New books

*George Abbot - "A Brief Description of the Whole World"
*John Bodenham - "Wits' Theater"
*Roger Fenton - "An Answer to William Alabaster, His Motives"
*Ferrante Imperato - "Dell'Historia Naturale"
*Thomas Morley - "The First Book of Consort Lessons"
*John Rainolds - "Th' Overthrow of Stage Plays"

New drama

*Anonymous (Robert Greene?) - "George a Greene, the Pinner of Wakefield" published
*Anonymous - "A Larum for London"
*Anonymous - "Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes"
*Anonymous - "A Warning for Fair Women" published
*Thomas Dekker - "The Shoemaker's Holiday"
**"Patient Grissel" (with Henry Chettle and William Haughton)
*Michael Drayton, Richard Hathwaye, Anthony Munday, & Robert Wilson - "Sir John Oldcastle"
*Robert Greene - "Alphonsus King of Aragon" published
*Ben Jonson - "Every Man Out of His Humour"
*John Marston - "Antonio and Mellida"
**"Jack Drum's Entertainment"
*Henry Porter - "The Two Angry Women of Abingdon" published
*William Shakespeare - "Henry V"
**"Julius Caesar"

Poetry

*Samuel Daniel - "Musophilus"
*Sir John Davies
**"Hymnes of Astraea"
**"Nosce Teipsum"
*Thomas Middleton - ""
*George Peele - "The Love of King David and Faire Bethsabe"

Births

*May 30 - Samuel Bochart, Biblical scholar
*July 23 - Stephanius, Danish royal historiographer
*August 14 - Méric Casaubon, English classicist (died 1671)
*October 31 - Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English statesman and writer (died 1680)
*"date unknown" - Madeleine de Souvré, marquise de Sablé, maxim writer

Deaths

*January 13 - Edmund Spenser, English poet (born 1552)
*October 18 - Daniel Adam z Veleslavína, lexicographer (born 1546)
*"date unknown"
**Jerónimo Bermúdez, dramatist
**Sherefxan Bidlisi, historian and poet
**Israel ben Moses Najara, Jewish liturgical poet (born 1530)
**Henry Porter, dramatist
**Reginald Scot, author of "The Discoverie of Witchcraft"


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