1598_in_literature
1598 in literature
Overview of the events of 1598 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1598.
- Before September – A second edition of Love's Labour's Lost appears in London as the first known printing of a Shakespeare play to have his name on the title page ("Newly corrected and augmented by W. Shakespere").
- February 23 – Thomas Bodley refounds the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford.[1]
- March 28 – Philip Henslowe contracts Edward Alleyn and Thomas Heywood to act for the Admiral's Men in London for two years.[2]
- April 30 – A comedy, by an anonymous playwright about an expedition of soldiers, is the very first theatrical performance in North America, staged near El Paso for Spanish colonists.[3]
- May 3 – The Spanish playwright Lope de Vega marries for the second time, to Juana de Guardo.
- c. May – The premiėre of William Haughton's Englishmen for My Money, or, A Woman Will Have Her Will introduces what is seen as the first city comedy, probably by the Admiral's Men at London's Rose Theatre.[4]
- c. July/September – Ben Jonson's comedy of humours Every Man in His Humour is probably first performed, by the Lord Chamberlain's Men at the Curtain Theatre, London, perhaps with Shakespeare playing Kno'well.[1]
- September 7 – Francis Meres' Palladis Tamia, Wits Treasury is registered for publication, including the first list and critical discussion of Shakespeare's works; he also mentions that Shakespeare's "sugar'd sonnets" are circulating privately.
- September 22 – Ben Jonson kills actor Gabriel Spenser in a duel in London and is briefly held in Newgate Prison, but escapes capital punishment by pleading benefit of clergy.[5]
- October – Edmund Spenser's castle at Kilcolman, County Cork, near Doneraile in Ireland, is burned down by native forces under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone. Spenser leaves for London shortly after.
- November 25 – Henry Chettle is paid for "mending" a play about Robin Hood to make it suitable for performance at court.[6]
- December 28 – London's The Theatre is dismantled.[7]
- unknown dates
- Lancelot Andrewes turns down the bishoprics of Ely and Salisbury.
- The English poet Barnabe Barnes is prosecuted in the Star Chamber for attempted murder of one John Browne, first by offering him a poisoned lemon and then by sweetening his wine with sugar laced with mercury sublimate; Browne survives both attempts.
- John Marston's The Metamorphosis of Pigmalion's Image and Certaine Satyres begins a trend in English satirical writing that leads to official suppression in the following year.[8]
Prose
- John Bodenham – Politeuphuia (Wits' Commonwealth)
- John Florio – A World of Words, Italian/English dictionary, the first dictionary published in England to use quotations ("illustrations") for meaning to the words
- Emanuel Ford – Parismus, the Renowned Prince of Bohemia (first part)
- King James VI of Scotland – The Trew Law of Free Monarchies
- Francis Meres – Palladis Tamia
- Merkelis Petkevičius – Polski z litewskim katechism
- John Stow – Survey of London[9]
- Zhao Shizhen – Shenqipu (3rd century, possible first publication)
- Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer – Enchuyser zeecaertboeck (Enkhuizen book of sea charts)
Drama
- Anonymous
- The Famous Victories of Henry V earliest known publication
- Mucedorus published
- The Pilgrimage to Parnassus (earliest possible date of composition)
- Jakob Ayrer
- Von der Erbauung Roms (The Building of Rome)
- Von der schönen Melusina (Fair Melusina)
- Samuel Brandon – Virtuous Octavia
- Henry Chettle, Henry Porter and Ben Jonson – Hot Anger Soon Cold[10]
- Robert Greene – The Scottish History of James IV published
- William Haughton – Englishmen for My Money
- Ben Jonson – Every Man in His Humour[11]
- Anthony Munday – The Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntingdon[6]
- Anthony Munday (and Henry Chettle?) – The Death of Robert Earl of Huntingdon[6]
- Henry Porter – Love Prevented
- William Shakespeare
- Henry IV, Part 1 (published)
- Love's Labour's Lost (published)[12]
Poetry
- Richard Barnfield
- The Encomium of Lady Pecunia
- Poems in Divers Humours
- George Chapman – translation of Homer's Iliad into English[1]
- Lope de Vega – La Arcadia and La Dragontea[13]
- Christopher Marlowe – Hero and Leander (completed by Chapman following Marlowe's death)[14]
- John Marston – The Metamorphosis of Pigmalian's Image and The Scourge of Villanie
- March 12 – Guillaume Colletet, French writer (died 1659)[15]
- March 13 – Johannes Loccenius, German historian (died 1677)
- July 29 – Henricus Regius, Dutch philosopher and correspondent of René Descartes (died 1679)[16]
- August 7 – Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet (died 1672)[17]
- unknown date – Johann George Moeresius, German poet (died 1657)
- January 2 - Morris Kyffin, Welsh soldier and author (born c.1555)[18]
- January 9 – Jasper Heywood, English translator (born 1535)
- February 27 – Friedrich Dedekind, German theologian (born 1524)[19]
- April 10 – Jacopo Mazzoni, Italian philosopher (born 1548)[citation needed]
- August – Alexander Montgomerie, outlawed Scottish poet (born c. 1545/1550)
- December 6 – Paolo Paruta, Venetian historian (born 1540)[20]
- December 15 – Philips van Marnix, lord of Sint-Aldegonde, Dutch statesman and author (born 1540)[21]
- December 31 – Heinrich Rantzau, German humanist writer (born 1526)
- unknown date – David Powel, Welsh historian who popularised continuing legends such as that of Prince Madoc (born c. 1549)[22]
- Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 233–238. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- Henslowe's Diary.
- Daniel, Clifton (1989). Chronicle of America. Chronicle publication. p. 39. ISBN 0-13-133745-9.
- Stott, Andrew (2005). Comedy. London: Routledge. p. 44. ISBN 9780415299336.
- Helen Ostovich, Holger Schott Syme, Andrew Griffin, Locating the Queen's Men, 1583-1603: Material Practices and Conditions of Playing, Ashgate Publishing, 2009, p. 91.
- Stephen Knight (2003). Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography. Cornell University Press. p. 216. ISBN 0-8014-3885-3.
- Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- Arthur F. Kinney; David W. Swain; Eugene D. Hill; William A. Long (17 November 2000). Tudor England: An Encyclopedia. Routledge. p. 624. ISBN 978-1-136-74530-0.
- Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 163–165. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- Roslyn Lander Knutson (26 July 2001). Playing Companies and Commerce in Shakespeare's Time. Cambridge University Press. p. 147. ISBN 978-1-139-42837-8.
- Ben Jonson; Johanna Procter; Martin Butler (26 May 1989). The Selected Plays of Ben Jonson: Volume 2: The Alchemist, Bartholomew Fair, The New Inn, A Tale of a Tub. Cambridge University Press. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-521-31842-6.
- William Shakespeare (1598). Love's Labour's Lost, 1598. Clarendon Press. p. 9.
- Lope de Vega; Richard W. Tyler (1972). A critical edition of Lope de Vega's La corona de Hungría. Department of Romance Languages, University of North Carolina. p. 186.
- A. H. Bullen, ed., The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3; London, John C. Nimmo, 1885; pp. 3–4; Fredson Bowers, ed., The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe, vol. 2; Cambridge Univ. Press, 1973; pg. 426.
- Manchester Literary Club (1907). Papers of the Manchester Literary Club. H. Rawson & Company. p. 335.
- Gerrit Arie Lindeboom (1979). Descartes and Medicine. Rodopi. p. 22. ISBN 978-90-6203-882-4.
- Marina Grut (2007). Royal Swedish Ballet: History from 1592 to 1962. Georg Olms. p. 12. ISBN 978-3-487-13494-9.
- John Francis Waller (1857). The Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography: A Series of Original Memoirs of Distinguished Men, of All Ages and All Nations. William Mackenzie, 22 Paternoster Row; Howard Street, Glasgow; South Bridge, Edinburgh. p. 49.
- The Catholic Encyclopedia: New Mexico-Philip. Appleton. 1911. p. 510.
- May King; David Leer Ringo; William K. Barnarad (2001). Supplemental research and history (volume XIV). McDowell Publications for the Freeborn Family Association. p. 24.
- Todd, Margo (2004). "Powell, Gabriel (bap. 1576, d. 1611)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 26 March 2009.