1584 in literature
# 1584 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1584.

## Events

* Master Thomas Giles takes charge of the Children of Paul's, a company of boy actors. This is the start of a close association with the works of John Lyly.
* London printer John Twyn is hanged, drawn and quartered for producing an edition of Gregory Martin's Catholic A Treatise of Schisme (1578).

## New books

### Prose

* Giordano Bruno – La Cena de le Ceneri (Ash Wednesday Supper)
* John Dee – 48 Claves angelicae (48 Angelic Keys, written in Kraków)
* James VI of Scotland – Some Reulis and Cautelis to be observit and eschewit in Scottis poesie
* David Powel – The Historie of Cambria, now called Wales (first printed history of Wales)
* Reginald Scot – The Discoverie of Witchcraft
* Richard Stanihurst – De rebus in Hibernia gestis (Of matters in the history of Ireland)
* Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer – Spiegel der Zeevaerdt (Mariners' Mirror, English 1588, Latin 1591)

### Drama

* 'A.M.' (probably Anthony Munday) – Fidele and Fortunio
* Robert Wilson (attributed) – The Three Ladies of London

### Poetry

See 1584 in poetry

* Thomas Watson – Hekatompathia or Passionate Centurie of Love (publication)

## Births

* May – André Duchesne, French geographer and historian (died 1640)
* August 29 – Patrick Young, Scottish scholar and royal librarian (died 1652)
* September 15 – Georg Rudolf Weckherlin, German poet (died 1653)
* December 16 – John Selden, English polymath (died 1654)
* unknown dates
   * Francis Beaumont, English dramatist and poet (died 1616)
   * Anna Ovena Hoyer, German/Swedish poet (died 1655)
   * Hu Zhengyan, Chinese artist, printmaker, calligrapher and publisher (died 1674)

## Deaths

* February 18 – Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian prose writer (born 1503)
* March 10 – Thomas Norton, English lawyer, politician and poet (born 1532)
* June 13 – János Zsámboky, Hungarian humanist, philologist and historian (born 1531)
* July 23 – John Day, English Protestant printer (born c. 1522)
* August 12 – Carolus Sigonius, Italian humanist writer (born c. 1524)
* November 21 – Turrianus, Spanish Jesuit Hellenist and polemicist (born c. 1509)
* unknown dates
   * Stephen Batman, English translator (date of birth unknown)
   * Gerhard Dorn, Flemish philosopher, translator and polymath (born c. 1530)
   * Alonso Gutiérrez, Spanish philosopher (born c. 1507)
