1562 in literature
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Template:Short description Template:Year nav topic5 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1562.
Events
- January 18 – First performance of Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville's play Gorboduc before Queen Elizabeth I of England. It is the first known English tragedy and the first English-language play to employ blank verse.[1]
- July 12 – Fray Diego de Landa, acting Bishop of Yucatán, burns the Maya codices (sacred books of the Maya) during the Spanish conquest of Yucatán.[2]
New books
Prose
- Magdeburger Centurien (Magdeburg Centuries), volumes V and VI
- Melchior Cano – De Locis theologicis (posthumously published)
- Petrus Ramus – Grammaire française
- Richard Smyth – De Missa Sacrificio
Drama
Poetry
Births
- January 13 – Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet and soldier of fortune (died 1601)[3]
- January 20 – Ottavio Rinuccini, Italian poet (died 1621)
- January 31 (bapt.) – Edward Blount, English publisher (died 1632)
- March – Francis Johnson, English Separatist theologian and polemicist (died 1618)[4]
- March 27 – Jacob Gretser, German Jesuit writer (died 1625)[5]
- August – Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola, Spanish poet and historian (died 1631)
- November 25 – Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and dramatist (died 1635)[6]
- Unknown dates
- Henry Constable, English poet (died 1613)[7]
- Samuel Daniel, English poet (died 1619)
- Francis Godwin, English writer and bishop (died 1633)
- Johann Mechtel, German chronicler (died c. 1631)
Deaths
- July 23 – Götz von Berlichingen, German knight immortalized by Goethe (born c. 1480)
- September 5 – Katharina Zell, Protestant writer (born c. 1497)[8]
- November 6 – Achille Bocchi, Italian humanist writer (born 1488)[9]
- November 12 – Pietro Martire Vermigli, Italian theologian (born 1499)[10]
- Unknown dates
- Matteo Bandello, Italian novelist (b. 1480)
- Nicholas Grimald, English poet and theologian (b. 1519)
- Probable year – George Cavendish, English biographer (born 1494)
References
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