1582 in literature
# 1582 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1582.

## Events

* February – Meleager, a Latin play on the mythological figure of Meleager by "Gulielmus Gagerus" (William Gager), is performed by members of Christ Church, Oxford.
* November 29 – Marriage of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway at Temple Grafton in England.
* Publication in England of the first part of Richard Mulcaster's textbook on the teaching of English, the Elementarie, including "a generall table [of eight thousand words] we commonlie use" in regularized spelling.
* Earliest reference to the publishing of private newspapers in Beijing (China).

## New books

### Prose

* Robert Bellarmine – Disputationes
* George Buchanan – Rerum Scoticarum Historia
* Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx – Balet comique de la Royne
* "Douay–Rheims Bible", New Testament
* Richard Hakluyt – Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America
* John Leland – A learned and true assertion of the original, life, actes, and death of the most noble, valiant, and renoumed Prince Arthure, King of great Brittaine (posthumous translation)
* Anthony Munday – English Romayne Lyfe (i. e. Life of an Englishman in Rome)

### Drama

* Anonymous – The Rare Triumphs of Love and Fortune
* Miguel de Cervantes – El cerco de Numancia
* William Gager – Meleager
* Giovanni Battista Guarini – Il pastor fido

### Poetry

See 1582 in poetry

## Births

* January 6 – Alonso de Contreras, Spanish adventurer and writer (died 1641)
* January 28 – John Barclay, Scottish satirist and poet (died 1621)
* February 6 – Mario Bettinus, Italian philosopher (died 1657)
* April 8 (baptised) – Phineas Fletcher, English poet (died 1650)
* October 17 – Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran theologian (died 1637)
* November 21 – François Maynard, French poet (died 1646)
* Unknown dates
   * Giovanni Francesco Abela, Maltese writer (died 1655)
   * Richard Corbet, English poet and bishop (died 1635)
   * William Lithgow, Scottish traveller and author (died 1645)

## Deaths

* January 26 – Thomas Platter, Swiss humanist writer (born 1499)
* July/August – Jacques Pelletier du Mans, French humanist poet (born 1517)
* September 28 – George Buchanan, Scottish historian (born 1506)
* October 4 – Teresa of Ávila, Spanish mystical writer (born 1515)
* Unknown dates
   * Arnoldus Arlenius, Dutch humanist philosopher and poet (born c.1510)
   * Natalis Comes, Italian mythographer, poet and historian (born 1520)
   * Jobus Fincelius, German humanist writer
