1593 in literature

Events

• Ongoing – London theatres remain closed for almost the whole year as a result of the previous year's outbreak of bubonic plague. In the summer, Edward Alleyn and other actors make a provincial tour. Some performances take place in the winter, when plague tends to abate. Lord Strange's Men act three times in January a play called Titus – perhaps Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus.
• After April – William Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis probably becomes his first published work, printed from his own manuscript. In his lifetime it will be his most frequently reprinted work: at least nine times.
• May 5 – "Dutch church libel" bills posted in London threaten Protestant refugees from France and the Netherlands, alluding to Christopher Marlowe's plays.
• May 12 – The English dramatist Thomas Kyd is arrested over the "Dutch church libel". "Atheist" literature found in his home is claimed to be Marlowe's.
• May 18 – A warrant for the arrest of Christopher Marlowe is issued. On May 20 he presents himself to the Privy Council.
• May 29 – The Welsh-born Protestant John Penry is executed for involvement in the Marprelate Controversy.
• May 30 – Christopher Marlowe is stabbed to death by a speculator, Ingram Frizer, in a dispute over a bill at a lodging house in Deptford kept by the widow Eleanor Bull.

New books

Prose

• Bible of Kralice, first complete translation of Bible into Czech
• Fray Juan de Plasencia – Doctrina Christiana, first book published in the Philippines, in Spanish and Tagalog
• John Eliot – Ortho-epia Gallica
• Claudius Hollyband (Claude de Sainliens) – A Dictionarie French and English
• Richard Hooker – Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
• Antonio Possevino – Bibliotheca selecta

Drama

• Daniel Cramer – Plagium
• Thomas Kyd (probably, perhaps with Shakespeare) – The Raigne of King Edward the Third (approximate date)
• George Peele – Famous Chronicle of King Edward the First
• George Peele (possibly) – The Life and Death of Jack Straw (first published)

Poetry

Main article: 1593 in poetry

• Barnabe Barnes – Parthenophil and Parthenophone
• Anthony Chute – Beauty Dishonoured, written under the title of Shore's wife
• Michael Drayton
  • Idea: The Shepherd's Garland
  • The Legend of Piers Gaveston
• William Shakespeare – Venus and Adonis
• Thomas Watson (posthumously, as T. W.) – The Tears of Fancie, or Love Disdained (sonnets)

Births

• April 3 – George Herbert, Welsh-born poet (died 1633)
• May 20 – Salomo Glassius, German theologian (died 1656)
• Unknown date – Robert Creighton, Scottish classicist, politician and bishop (died 1672)
• Approximate year – Aodh Buidhe Mac an Bhaird (Hugh Ward), Irish poet and hagiographer (died 1635)

Deaths

• January 12 – Amadis Jamyn, French poet (born 1538)
• February 6 – Jacques Amyot, French translator (born 1513)
• May 30 – Christopher Marlowe, English dramatist and poet (born 1564)
• August 19 – Antonio Veneziano, Italian poet writing in Sicilian (born 1543)
• Unknown date – Chŏng Ch'ŏl, Korean poet and statesman (born 1536)

References

References

1. (2004). "The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature". Oxford University Press.
2. Hotson, Leslie. (1925). "The Death of Christopher Marlowe". Nonesuch Press.
3. Shakespeare, William. (2013). "Collaborative Plays". Palgrave Macmillan.