1592 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1592.

Events

February 5–7 – Ulysses Redux, a Latin play by William Gager, is staged by members of Christ Church, Oxford. Two days later, they revive Gager's 1583 Latin play Rivales.
February 26 – The first firmly recorded performance of Christopher Marlowe's The Jew of Malta is given by Lord Strange's Men in London.
June 23 – The London theatres close and apart from a brief spell around January 1593 remain so for about 16 months due to an epidemic of bubonic plague.
September 3 – The English writer Robert Greene dies in London of a "banquet of Rhenish wine and pickled herring", having apparently completed Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit, including a reference to "an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers", taken to be the first published reference to Shakespeare as a playwright.
September 26 – Rivales is performed again by members of Christ Church, with Queen Elizabeth I of England in the audience, during her second visit to the University of Oxford.
October–December – Pembroke's Men, an English playing company, is known to be in existence, acting in Leicester and at Court in London.
November 9 – The Sixto-Clementine Vulgate is promulgated.
December 18 – An entry in the Stationers' Register may refer to Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, perhaps marking the year of its first performance.

Antonio Agustin – Dialoghi intorno alle medaglie inscrittioni et attre antichità, with woodcuts by Geronima Parasole
Isaac Casaubon – New edition of Theophrastus's Characteres
Blaise de Montluc – Commentaires de Messire Blaise de Montluc
'P. F.' – The Historie of the Damnable Life, and Deserved Death of Doctor Iohn Faustus
Robert Greene
*The Black Books Messenger
*A Disputation Between a Hee Conny-Catcher and a Shee Conny-Catcher
*The Third and Last Part of Conycatching
*Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit, Bought with a Million of Repentance
*Greene's Vision, Written at the Instant of his Death
*Philomela
*A Quip for an Upstart Courtier
Muhammad al-Idrisi – De geographia universali or Kitāb Nuzhat al-mushtāq fī dhikr al-amṣār wa-al-aqṭār wa-al-buldān wa-al-juzur wa-al-madā’ in wa-al-āfāq
Richard Johnson – Nine Worthies of London
Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer – Thresoor der Zeevaert
Hieronymous Megiser – Dictionarium quatuor linguarum
Anonymous – The Murder of John Brewen
Wu Cheng'en – ''Journey to the West''