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.
New books
Prose
- Giordano Bruno – La Cena de le Ceneri
- John Dee – 48 Claves angelicae
- 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
- Reginald Scot – The Discoverie of Witchcraft
- Richard Stanihurst – De rebus in Hibernia gestis
- Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer – ''Spiegel der Zeevaerdt''
Drama
- 'A.M.' – Fidele and Fortunio
- Robert Wilson – ''The Three Ladies of London''
Poetry
See 1584 in poetry- Thomas Watson – ''Hekatompathia or Passionate Centurie of Love''
Births
- May – André Duchesne, French geographer and historian
- August 29 – Patrick Young, Scottish scholar and royal librarian
- September 15 – Georg Rudolf Weckherlin, German poet
- December 16 – John Selden, English polymath
- unknown dates
- * Francis Beaumont, English dramatist and poet
- *Anna Ovena Hoyer, German/Swedish poet
- *Hu Zhengyan, Chinese artist, printmaker, calligrapher and publisher
Deaths
- February 18 – Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian prose writer
- March 10 – Thomas Norton, English lawyer, politician and poet
- June 13 – János Zsámboky, Hungarian humanist, philologist and historian
- July 23 – John Day, English Protestant printer
- August 12 – Carolus Sigonius, Italian humanist writer
- November 21 – Turrianus, Spanish Jesuit Hellenist and polemicist
- unknown dates
- *Stephen Batman, English translator
- *Gerhard Dorn, Flemish philosopher, translator and polymath
- *Alonso Gutiérrez, Spanish philosopher