1562 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1562.

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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

• Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville – Gorboduc

Poetry

• Arthur Brooke – The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet

Births

• 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)[3]
• 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)[4]
• Unknown dates
  • Samuel Daniel, English poet (died 1619)
  • 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)[5]
• November 12 – Pietro Martire Vermigli, Italian theologian (born 1499)
• Probable year – George Cavendish, English biographer (born 1494)

References

1. "Gorboduc, or the Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrox". Archived from the original on 2007-09-17. Retrieved 2007-11-14.
2. Derek Jones (December 2001). Censorship: A World Encyclopedia. Routledge. p. 1573. ISBN 978-1-136-79864-1.
3. Scott Culpepper (2011). Francis Johnson and the English Separatist Influence: The Bishop of Brownism's Life, Writings, and Controversies. Mercer University Press. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-88146-238-8.
4. Jo Eldridge Carney (2001). Renaissance and Reformation, 1500-1620: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 361. ISBN 978-0-313-30574-0.
5. Peter G. Bietenholz; Thomas Brian Deutscher (1 January 2003). Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation. University of Toronto Press. p. 157. ISBN 978-0-8020-8577-1.