1576 in literature
# 1576 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1576.

## Events

* December – James Burbage opens The Theatre, the second permanent public playhouse in London (and the first to have a substantial life – 22 years), ushering in the great age of Elizabethan drama.
* unknown dates
   * The composer Richard Farrant opens the first Blackfriars Theatre in London, presenting plays performed by the Children of the Chapel.
   * The composer Thomas Whythorne writes a Booke of songs and sonetts with longe discourses sett with them [sic], an early example of autobiographical writing in English.

## New books

### Prose

* Jean Bodin – Les Six livres de la République (The Six Books of the Republic)
* Ulpian Fulwell – Ars adulandi, or, The Art of Flattery (dialogues)
* Étienne de La Boétie (died 1563) – Discourse on Voluntary Servitude (Discours de la servitude volontaire, published as Le Contr'un)
* George Pettie – A Petite Palace of Pettie His Pleasure
* Peter Martyr Vermigli (died 1562; edited by Robert le Maçon) – Loci Communes
* George Whetstone – The Rocke of Regard

### Drama

* Luigi Pasqualigo – Il Fedele
* George Wapull – The Tide Tarrieth No Man published

### Poetry

* See 1576 in poetry
* Tulsidas – Ramcharitmanas
* The Paradise of Dainty Devices, the most popular of the Elizabethan verse miscellanies

## Births

* January 12 – Petrus Scriverius, Dutch historian (died 1660)
* May 27 – Caspar Schoppe, German controversialist (died 1649)
* June 6 – Giovanni Diodati, Bible translator (died 1649)
* October – John Marston, English dramatist and poet (died 1634)
* October 30 – Enrico Caterino Davila, Italian historian (died 1631)
* unknown dates
   * William Ames, English philosopher (died 1633)
   * Johann Bogermann, Dutch translator (died 1637)
   * Samuel Collins, theologian (died 1651)
   * Charles Fitzgeoffrey, Elizabethan poet (died 1638)
   * Goldastus, Swiss Calvinist historian (died 1635)
   * John Weever, English poet and antiquary (died 1632)

## Deaths

* January 19 – Hans Sachs, German poet and dramatist (born 1494)
* February 10 – Wilhelm Xylander, German classical scholar (born 1532)
* March 18 – Johann Stössel, German Lutheran theologian (born 1524; died in prison)
* May 2 – Bartolomé Carranza, Spanish theologian (born 1503)
* June 30 – Franciscus Sonnius, Flemish theologian (born 1506)
* October 14 – Konrad Heresbach, Calvinist writer (born 1496)
* unknown dates
   * Basil Faber, German theologian (born 1520)
   * Aloysius Lilius, Italian philosopher (born c. 1510)
   * Lancelot Ridley, English theologian
   * Mavro Vetranović, Croatian Benedictine poet and author (born 1482)
