1584 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1584.

Events

• Master Thomas Giles takes charge of the Children of Paul's; this is the start of a close association with the works of John Lyly.

New books

• A Booke of Cookry
• 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
• David Powel - Historie of Cambria
• Reginald Scot - The Discoverie of Witchcraft
• Richard Stanihurst - De rebus in Hibernia gestis
• "John Soowthern" - Pandora
• Virupaksha Pandita - Chenna Basava Purana

New drama

• 'A.M.' (probably Anthony Munday) - Fidele and Fortunio
• Robert Wilson (attr.) - The Three Ladies of London

Poetry

See 1584 in poetry

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 date
  • 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)