1598 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1598.
Events
- Before September – A second edition of Love's Labour's Lost is published in London; it is the first known printing of a Shakespeare play to have his name ("W. Shakespere") on the title-page.
- February 23 – Thomas Bodley refounds the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford.[1]
- March 28 – Philip Henslowe contracts Edward Alleyn and Thomas Heywood to act for the Admiral's Men in London for 2 years.[2]
- May 3 – Lope de Vega marries for the second time, to Juana de Guardo.
- c. May? – Premiėre of William Haughton's Englishmen for My Money, or, A Woman Will Have Her Will, considered the first city comedy,[3] probably by the Admiral's Men at The Rose theatre in London.
- c. July/September – Ben Jonson's comedy of humours Every Man in His Humour is probably first performed[1] by the Lord Chamberlain's Men at the Curtain Theatre in London, perhaps with Shakespeare playing Kno'well.
- September 22 – Ben Jonson kills actor Gabriel Spenser in a duel in London and is briefly held in Newgate Prison but escapes capital punishment by pleading benefit of clergy.
- October – Edmund Spenser's castle at Kilcolman, near Doneraile in North Cork, is burned down by the native Irish forces of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone. Spenser leaves for London shortly afterwards.
- December 28 – In London, The Theatre is dismantled.[4]
- Lancelot Andrewes turns down the bishoprics of both Ely and Salisbury.
- English poet Barnabe Barnes is prosecuted in Star Chamber for attempting to murder one John Browne, first by offering him a poisoned lemon and then by sweetening his wine with sugar laced with mercury sublimate; Browne has survived the attempt.
- The year sees a burst of satirical writing in England, especially from John Marston; the excesses will lead to an official suppression in the following year.
New books
Prose
- John Bodenham – Politeuphuia (Wits' Commonwealth)
- John Florio – A World of Words, an Italian/English dictionary, the first dictionary published in England to use quotations ("illustrations") to give meaning to the words
- Emanuel Ford – Parismus, the Renowned Prince of Bohemia (first part)
- King James VI of Scotland – The Trew Law of Free Monarchies
- Francis Meres – Palladis Tamia, Wits Treasury, including the first critical discussion of Shakespeare's works
- Merkelis Petkevičius – Polski z litewskim katechism
- John Stow – Survey of London[5]
- Zhao Shizhen – Shenqipu (3rd century, first publication?)
- Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer – Enchuyser zeecaertboeck (Enkhuizen book of sea charts)
Drama
- Anonymous
- The Famous Victories of Henry V earliest known publication
- Mucedorus published
- The Pilgrimage to Parnassus earliest probable date of performance
- Jakob Ayrer
- Von der Erbauung Roms (The Building of Rome)
- Von der schönen Melusina (Fair Melusina)
- Samuel Brandon – Virtuous Octavia
- Henry Chettle, Henry Porter and Ben Jonson – Hot Anger Soon Cold
- Robert Greene – The Scottish History of James IV published
- William Haughton – Englishmen for My Money
- Ben Jonson – Every Man in His Humour
- Anthony Munday – The Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntingdon
- Anthony Munday (and Henry Chettle?) – The Death of Robert Earl of Huntingdon
- Henry Porter – Love Prevented
- William Shakespeare
- Henry IV, Part 1 (published)
- Love's Labor's Lost (published)
Poetry
- Richard Barnfield
- The Encomium of Lady Pecunia
- Poems in Divers Humours
- George Chapman – translation of Homer's Iliad into English[1]
- Lope de Vega – La Arcadia and La Dragontea
- Christopher Marlowe – Hero and Leander (completed by Chapman following Marlowe's death)
- John Marston – The Metamorphosis of Pigmalian's Image and The Scourge of Villanie
Births
- July 29 – Henricus Regius, Dutch philosopher and correspondent of René Descartes (died 1679)
- August 7 – Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet (died 1672)
- Unknown date – Johann George Moeresius, German poet (died 1657)
Deaths
- January 9 – Jasper Heywood, English translator (born 1535)
- February 27 – Friedrich Dedekind, German theologian (born 1524)
- April 10 – Jacopo Mazzoni, Italian philosopher (born 1548)
- August – Alexander Montgomerie, outlawed Scottish poet (born c. 1545/50)
- December 6 – Paolo Paruta, Venetian historian (born 1540)
- December 15 – Philips van Marnix, lord of Sint-Aldegonde, Dutch statesman and author (born 1540)
- December 31 – Heinrich Rantzau, German humanist writer (born 1526)
- Unknown date – David Powel, Welsh historian (born c. 1549)
References
- 1 2 3 Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 233–238. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ↑ Henslowe's Diary.
- ↑ Stott, Andrew (2005). Comedy. London: Routledge. p. 44. ISBN 9780415299336.
- ↑ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ↑ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 163–165. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
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