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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.[1]
- London printer John Twyn is hanged, drawn and quartered for producing an edition of Gregory Martin's Catholic A Treatise of Schisme (1578).[2]
New books
Prose
- Giordano Bruno – La Cena de le Ceneri (Ash Wednesday Supper)[3]
- John Dee – 48 Claves angelicae (48 Angelic Keys, written in Kraków)[4]
- 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)[5]
- 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)[6]
- 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)[7]
- March 10 – Thomas Norton, English lawyer, politician and poet (born 1532)
- June 13 – János Zsámboky, Hungarian humanist, philologist and historian (born 1531)[8]
- July 23 – John Day, English Protestant printer (born c. 1522)
- August 12 – Carolus Sigonius, Italian humanist writer (born c. 1524)[9]
- November 21 – Turrianus, Spanish Jesuit Hellenist and polemicist (born c. 1509)[10]
- 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)[11]
References
- Chambers, E. K. The Elizabethan Stage. vol. 2, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1923.
- Mullan, John (2007). Anonymity. London: Faber. p. 141. ISBN 978-0-571-19514-5.
- A Bibliographical Catalogue of Italian Books Printed in England, 1558-1603. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. 2009. p. 261. ISBN 978-0-7546-6373-7.
- Nicholas Clulee (15 February 2013). John Dee's Natural Philosophy: Between Science and Religion. Routledge. p. 306. ISBN 978-1-136-18306-5.
- Caradoc (of Llancarvan) (1969). The Historie of Cambria. Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.
- William Worthen Appleton (1956). Beaumont and Fletcher. CUP Archive. pp. 9=.
- Charles Dudley Warner (1 July 2008). A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol.XLII. Cosimo, Inc. p. 231. ISBN 978-1-60520-248-8.
- Jacob Soll, The information master: Jean-Baptiste Colbert's secret state intelligence system, University of Michigan Press, 2009, p.26
- Timperley (C. H.) (1839). A Dictionary of Printers and Printing, with the Progress of Literature, Ancient and Modern; Bibliographical Illustrations. Johnson. p. 380.
- Journal of Theological Studies. Clarendon Press. 1914. p. 53.
- Clarence A. Liederbach (1977). Mexico's Bishops. Bona Ventura Press. p. 74.