1585 in literature
# 1585 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1585.

## Events

* February 2 – Hamnet and Judith, twin children of William Shakespeare and his wife Anne, are baptised at Stratford-upon-Avon.
* March 3 – The Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza, designed by Andrea Palladio, and completed by Vincenzo Scamozzi, opens with a production of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex), using trompe-l'œil scenery in one-point perspective.
* December 13 – The blind poet, playwright and actor Luigi Groto dies in Venice, having just come from the theatre, where he has played the role of the blind Oedipus Rex.

## New books

### Prose

* John Calvin – The Commentaries... upon the Actes of the Apostles, Faithfully translated out of Latine into English for the great profite of our countrie-men, by Christopher Fetherstone, student in divinitie
* Miguel de Cervantes – La Galatea

### Drama

* Nicolas de Montreux – Athlette
* Richard Tarlton (attributed) – The Seven Deadly Sins

### Poetry

See 1585 in poetry

* Thomas Watson – Amyntas (pastoral epic in Latin)

## Births

* January 6 – Claude Favre de Vaugelas, French grammarian (died 1650)
* January 31 – Daniel Schwenter, German Orientalist, polymath, poet and librarian (died 1636)
* March 16 – Gerbrand Bredero, Dutch poet and playwright (died 1618)
* June 24 – Johannes Lippius, German Protestant theologian, philosopher, and theorist of music (died 1612)
* October 11 – Johann Heermann, German poet (died 1647)
* December 4 – John Cotton, English-born American theologian and minister (died 1652)
* December 13 – William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet (died 1649)

Uncertain dates

* Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland, née Elizabeth Tanfield, English poet, translator and dramatist (died 1639)
* Diego Jiménez de Enciso, Spanish dramatist (died 1634)

## Deaths

* January – Anthony Gilby, English Puritan and Bible translator (born c. 1510)
* February 6 – Edmund Plowden, English lawyer and theorist (born 1518)
* February 13 – Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit Biblical commentator (born 1515)
* March 10 – Rembert Dodoens, Flemish botanist (born 1517)
* June 4 – Muretus, French humanist poet and writer in Latin (born 1526)
* June 20 – Christian Kruik van Adrichem, Dutch Catholic theologian (born 1533)
* July 30 – Christian Schesaus, German humanist poet (born 1535)
* September 1 – Alexander Arbuthnot, Scottish printer (year of birth unknown)
* September 18 – Molanus, Flemish theologian of the Counter Reformation (born 1533)
* December 8 – Piero Vettori, Italian humanist philologist and writer (born 1499)
* December 27 – Pierre de Ronsard, French poet (born 1524)
