1562 in literature

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.
• 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.

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

• Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville – Gorboduc
• Nicholas Udall? - Jacke Jugeler

Poetry

• Arthur Brooke – The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet

Births

• January 13 – Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet and soldier of fortune (died 1601)
• 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)
• March 27 – Jacob Gretser, German Jesuit writer (died 1625)
• August – Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola, Spanish poet and historian (died 1631)
• November 25 – Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and dramatist (died 1635)
• Unknown dates
  • Henry Constable, English poet (died 1613)
  • 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)
• November 6 – Achille Bocchi, Italian humanist writer (born 1488)
• November 12 – Pietro Martire Vermigli, Italian theologian (born 1499)
• 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

References

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2. Derek Jones. (December 2001). "Censorship: A World Encyclopedia". Routledge.
3. R Horn. (1867). "Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates".
4. Scott Culpepper. (2011). "Francis Johnson and the English Separatist Influence: The Bishop of Brownism's Life, Writings, and Controversies". Mercer University Press.
5. [[s:Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Jacob Gretser. Jacob Gretser]]
6. Jo Eldridge Carney. (2001). "Renaissance and Reformation, 1500-1620: A Biographical Dictionary". Greenwood Publishing Group.
7. {{Cite EB1911. Gosse. Edmund William
8. Elsie Anne McKee. (1999). "Katharina Schütz Zell the Life and Thought of a Sixteenth-century Reformer". Brill.
9. (1 January 2003). "Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation". University of Toronto Press.
10. McNair, Philip. (1967). "Peter Martyr in Italy: An Anatomy of Apostasy". Clarendon.