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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1590.
Events
- January – The Children of Paul's perform at the English Court twice in the first week; one of the plays act may be John Lyly's Midas. Later this year they are banned from performing over of the involvement of Lily, their chief script-writer, in the Marprelate controversy.
- unknown date – The Teatro all'antica at Sabbioneta (Italy), designed by Vincenzo Scamozzi, is completed.
New books
- Robert Greene
- Greene's Mourning Garment[1]
- Never Too Late
- Thomas Lodge – Rosalynde
- Thomas Nashe – An Almond for a Parrat
New drama
- Anonymous (approximate date)
- Robert Greene
- The Comical History of Alphonsus, King of Aragon (approximate date)
- The History of Orlando Furioso
- The Scottish History of James the Fourth (approximate date)
- with Thomas Lodge – A Looking Glass for London (approximate date)
- Christopher Marlowe – Tamburlaine (both parts published)
- George Peele – Famous Chronicle of King Edward the First
- Robert Wilson – The Three Lords and Three Ladies of London (published)
Poetry
- Sir Philip Sidney – Arcadia
- Edmund Spenser – The Faerie Queene, Books 1-3
Births
- January 30 – Lady Anne Clifford, English literary patron (died 1676)
- March 18 – Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (died 1649)
- June 24 – Samuel Ampzing, Dutch poet (died 1632)
- July 26 – Johannes Crellius, German-born Polish theologian (died 1633)
- September 12 – María de Zayas, Spanish poet and dramatist (died 1661)
- October 11[2] (or December)[3] – William Pynchon, English-born New England theologian (died 1662)
- unknown dates
- Alonso Andrada, Spanish biographer (died 1672)
- François Annat, French anti-Jansenist theologian (died 1670)[4]
- Thomas Carve, Irish historian writing in Latin (died c. 1672)
- Faqi Tayran, Kurdish poet (died 1660)
- Grigore Ureche, Moldavian chronicler (died 1647)
- Théophile de Viau, French poet and dramatist (died 1626)[5]
Deaths
- January 7 – Jakob Andreae, German theologian (born 1528)
- February 1 – Lawrence Humphrey, English theologian (born c. 1527)
- March – Petru Cercel, Wallachian prince and poet
- July – Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, French poet (born 1544)
- September 20 – Robert Garnier, French poet (born 1544)
- November 23 – André Thévet, French cosmographer (born 1502)
- November 29 – Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin, German poet and dramatist (born 1547)
- December 5 – Johann Habermann, German theologian (born 1516)
- probable
- Lambert Daneau, French theologian (born c. 1535)
- Giuseppe Leggiadri Gallani, Italian poet and dramatist (born 1516)
References
- ↑ Lawrence Manley; Prof Lawrence Manley; Manley Lawrence (11 May 1995). Literature and Culture in Early Modern London. Cambridge University Press. p. 342. ISBN 978-0-521-46161-0.
- ↑ David M. Powers (19 January 2015). Damnable Heresy: William Pynchon, the Indians, and the First Book Banned (and Burned) in Boston. Wipf and Stock Publishers. p. 6. ISBN 978-1-63087-761-3.
- ↑ Massachusetts (Colony). Courts (Hampshire Co.) (1961). Colonial Justice in Western Massachusetts, 1639-1702: The Pynchon Court Record. Harvard University Press. p. 6.
- ↑ Blaise Pascal (1999). Pensées and Other Writings. Oxford University Press. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-19-283655-7.
- ↑ David Lee Rubin (2004). La Poésie française du premier 17e siècle: textes et contextes (in French). Rookwood Press. p. 220. ISBN 978-1-886365-53-7.
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