1590 in literature

Events

• January – The Children of Paul's perform at the English Court twice in the first week; one of the plays act may be John Lyly's Midas. Later this year they are banned from performing over of the involvement of Lily, their chief script-writer, in the Marprelate controversy.
• unknown date – The Teatro all'antica at Sabbioneta (Italy), designed by Vincenzo Scamozzi, is completed.

New books

• Robert Greene
  • Greene's Mourning Garment
  • Never Too Late
• Thomas Lodge – Rosalynde
• Thomas Nashe – An Almond for a Parrat

New drama

• Anonymous (approximate date)
  • Fair Em, the Miller's Daughter of Manchester
  • King Leir
  • Mucedorus
• Robert Greene
  • The Comical History of Alphonsus, King of Aragon (approximate date)
  • The History of Orlando Furioso
  • The Scottish History of James the Fourth (approximate date)
  • with Thomas Lodge – A Looking Glass for London (approximate date)
• Christopher Marlowe – Tamburlaine (both parts published)
• George Peele – Famous Chronicle of King Edward the First
• Robert Wilson – The Three Lords and Three Ladies of London (published)

Poetry

• Sir Philip Sidney – Arcadia
• Edmund Spenser – The Faerie Queene, Books 1–3

Births

• January 30 – Lady Anne Clifford, English literary patron (died 1676)
• March 18 – Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (died 1649)
• June 24 – Samuel Ampzing, Dutch poet (died 1632)
• July 26 – Johannes Crellius, German-born Polish theologian (died 1633)
• September 12 – María de Zayas, Spanish poet and dramatist (died 1661)
• October 11 (or December) – William Pynchon, English-born New England theologian (died 1662)
• unknown dates
  • Alonso Andrada, Spanish biographer (died 1672)
  • François Annat, French anti-Jansenist theologian (died 1670)
  • Thomas Carve, Irish historian writing in Latin (died c. 1672)
  • Faqi Tayran, Kurdish poet (died 1660)
  • Grigore Ureche, Moldavian chronicler (died 1647)
  • Théophile de Viau, French poet and dramatist (died 1626)

Deaths

• January 7 – Jakob Andreae, German theologian (born 1528)
• February 1 – Lawrence Humphrey, English theologian (born c. 1527)
• March – Petru Cercel, Wallachian prince and poet
• July – Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, French poet (born 1544)
• September 20 – Robert Garnier, French poet (born 1544)
• November 23 – André Thévet, French cosmographer (born 1502)
• November 29 – Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin, German poet and dramatist (born 1547)
• December 5 – Johann Habermann, German theologian (born 1516)
• probable
  • Lambert Daneau, French theologian (born c. 1535)
  • Giuseppe Leggiadri Gallani, Italian poet and dramatist (born 1516)

References

References

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2. David M. Powers. (19 January 2015). "Damnable Heresy: William Pynchon, the Indians, and the First Book Banned (and Burned) in Boston". Wipf and Stock Publishers.
3. (1961). "Colonial Justice in Western Massachusetts, 1639-1702: The Pynchon Court Record". Harvard University Press.
4. Blaise Pascal. (1999). "Pensées and Other Writings". Oxford University Press.
5. David Lee Rubin. (2004). "La Poésie française du premier 17e siècle: textes et contextes". Rookwood Press.