1590 in literature
# 1590 in literature

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
   * Never Too Late
* Thomas Lodge – Rosalynde
* Thomas Nashe – An Almond for a Parrat

## New drama

* Anonymous (approximate date)
   * Fair Em, the Miller's Daughter of Manchester
   * King Leir
   * Mucedorus
* 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 (or December) – 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)
   * 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)

## 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)
