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1558 In Literature
Events from the year 1558 in literature. Events *November 17 – The Elizabethan era begins in England: the Catholic Queen Mary dies and is succeeded by her Protestant half-sister Elizabeth. *''unknown dates'' **Albert V, Duke of Bavaria, sets up in his Munich Residenz a court library that is the predecessor of the Bavarian State Library, with the collection of the late Johann Albrecht Widmannstetter at its core. **Italian exile Pietro Perna sets up his printing press in Basel, Switzerland. New books Prose *John Dee – ''Propaedeumata Aphoristica'' *Ser Giovanni Fiorentino – ''Il Pecorone'' (The Simpleton) *John Knox (published anonymously) – ' *Marguerite de Navarre (died 1549) – ''Heptaméron (Histoires des amans fortunez)'' (edited by Pierre Boaistuau) *Giambattista della Porta – ''Magia Naturalis'' * Thomas Watson – ' Drama *Jacques Grévin – ' Poetry *''See 1558 in poetry'' Births *July 11 (baptism) – Robert Greene, English writer (died 1592) *November 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
November 17
Events Pre-1600 * 887 – Emperor Charles the Fat is deposed by the Frankish magnates in an assembly at Frankfurt, leading his nephew, Arnulf of Carinthia, to declare himself king of the East Frankish Kingdom in late November. *1183 – Genpei War: The Battle of Mizushima takes place off the Japanese coast, where Minamoto no Yoshinaka's invasion force is intercepted and defeated by the Taira clan. * 1292 – John Balliol becomes King of Scotland. * 1405 – Sharif ul-Hāshim establishes the Sultanate of Sulu. * 1494 – French King Charles VIII occupies Florence, Italy. * 1511 – Henry VIII of England concludes the Treaty of Westminster, a pledge of mutual aid against the French, with Ferdinand II of Aragon. * 1558 – Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England. 1601–1900 * 1603 – English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heptaméron
The ''Heptaméron'' is a collection of 72 short stories written in French by Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549), published posthumously in 1558. It has the form of a frame narrative and was inspired by ''The Decameron'' of Giovanni Boccaccio. It was originally intended to contain one hundred stories covering ten days like ''The Decameron'', but at Marguerite’s death it was completed only as far as the second story of the eighth day. Many of the stories deal with love, lust, infidelity, and other romantic and sexual matters. One was based on the life of Marguerite de La Rocque, a French noblewoman who was punished by being abandoned with her lover on an island off Quebec. In 1973, the French director Claude Pierson (1930-1997) made an adaptation of this work, entitled '' Ah ! Si mon moine voulait…'' with Alice Arno in the cast. The collection first appeared in print in 1558 under the title ''Histoires des amans fortunez'' edited by Pierre Boaistuau, who took considerable ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Lodge
Thomas Lodge (c. 1558September 1625) was an English writer and medical practitioner whose life spanned the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. Biography Thomas Lodge was born about 1558 in West Ham, the second son of Sir Thomas Lodge, Lord Mayor of London, by his third wife Anne (1528–1579), daughter of Henry Luddington (died 1531), a London grocer. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and Trinity College, Oxford; taking his BA in 1577 and MA in 1581. In 1578 he entered Lincoln's Inn, where, as in the other Inns of Court, a love of letters and a crop of debts were common. Lodge, disregarding the wishes of his family, took up literature. When the penitent Stephen Gosson had (in 1579) published his ''Schoole of Abuse'', Lodge responded with ''Defence of Poetry, Music and Stage Plays'' (1579 or 1580), which shows a certain restraint, though both forceful and learned. The pamphlet was banned, but appears to have been circulated privately. It was answered by Gosson i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1594 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1594. Events *c. February – The Shakespeare play ''Titus Andronicus'' is the first to be published, anonymously in London. His poem ''The Rape of Lucrece'' is published after May. *Spring – The London theaters reopen after two years of general inactivity due to the bubonic plague epidemic of 1592–94. Many actors who used to be Lord Strange's Men form a new company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, under the patronage of Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon, Lord Chamberlain of England at the time. *April 6 and April 9 – Members of Queen Elizabeth's Men and Sussex's Men perform the early ''King Leir'' at the Rose Theatre in London. *May 14 – The reorganized Admiral's Men begin performances with Christopher Marlowe's ''The Jew of Malta''. *October – The first firmly recorded performance of Marlowe's '' The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus'' is given by the Admiral's Men with Ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Kyd
Thomas Kyd (baptised 6 November 1558; buried 15 August 1594) was an English playwright, the author of ''The Spanish Tragedy'', and one of the most important figures in the development of Elizabethan drama. Although well known in his own time, Kyd fell into obscurity until 1773 when Thomas Hawkins, an early editor of ''The Spanish Tragedy'', discovered that Kyd was named as its author by Thomas Heywood in his ''Apologie for Actors'' (1612). A hundred years later, scholars in Germany and England began to shed light on his life and work, including the controversial finding that he may have been the author of a ''Hamlet'' play pre-dating Shakespeare's, which is now known as the ''Ur-Hamlet''. Early life Thomas Kyd was the son of Francis and Anna Kyd. There are no records of the day he was born, but he was baptised in the church of St Mary Woolnoth in the Ward of Langborn, Lombard Street, London on 6 November 1558. The baptismal register at St Mary Woolnoth carries this entry: "Tho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
November 3
Events Pre-1600 * 361 – Emperor Constantius II dies of a fever at Mopsuestia in Cilicia; on his deathbed he is baptised and declares his cousin Julian rightful successor. *1333 – The River Arno floods causing massive damage in Florence as recorded by the Florentine chronicler Giovanni Villani. *1468 – Liège is sacked by Charles I of Burgundy's troops. *1492 – Peace of Etaples between Henry VII of England and Charles VIII of France. *1493 – Christopher Columbus first sights the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea. *1534 – English Parliament passes the first Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the Anglican Church, supplanting the pope and the Roman Catholic Church. 1601–1900 *1783 – The American Continental Army is disbanded. *1793 – French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined. *1812 – Napoleon's armies are defeated at the Battle of Vyazma. *1817 – The Bank of Montre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1592 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1592. Events * February 5– 7 – ''Ulysses Redux'', a Latin play by William Gager, is staged by members of Christ Church, Oxford. Two days later, they revive Gager's 1583 Latin play ''Rivales'' (now lost). * February 26 – The first firmly recorded performance of Christopher Marlowe's ''The Jew of Malta'' is given by Lord Strange's Men in London. * June 23 – The London theatres close and apart from a brief spell around January 1593 remain so for about 16 months due to an epidemic of bubonic plague. *September 3 – The English writer Robert Greene dies in London of a "banquet of Rhenish wine and pickled herring", having apparently completed ''Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit'' (published soon after), including a reference to "an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers", taken to be the first published (critical) reference to Shakespeare as a playwright. *September 26 – ''Rivales'' is per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Greene (dramatist)
Robert Greene (1558–1592) was an English author popular in his day, and now best known for a posthumous pamphlet attributed to him, '' Greene's Groats-Worth of Witte, bought with a million of Repentance'', widely believed to contain an attack on William Shakespeare. Robert Greene was a popular Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer known for his negative critiques of his colleagues. He is said to have been born in Norwich. He attended Cambridge where he received a BA in 1580, and an M.A. in 1583 before moving to London, where he arguably became the first professional author in England. Greene was prolific and published in many genres including romances, plays and autobiography. Family According to the author Brenda Richardson, the "chief problem" in compiling a biography of Robert Greene was his name. ''Robert'' was one of the most popular given names of the era and ''Greene'' was a common surname. L. H. Newcomb suggests that Robert Greene "was probably the Robert Greene, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
July 11
Events Pre-1600 * 472 – After being besieged in Rome by his own generals, Western Roman Emperor Anthemius is captured in St. Peter's Basilica and put to death. * 813 – Byzantine emperor Michael I, under threat by conspiracies, abdicates in favor of his general Leo the Armenian, and becomes a monk (under the name Athanasius). *911 – Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple and Rollo of Normandy. * 1174 – Baldwin IV, 13, becomes King of Jerusalem, with Raymond III, Count of Tripoli as regent and William of Tyre as chancellor. * 1302 – Battle of the Golden Spurs (''Guldensporenslag'' in Dutch): A coalition around the Flemish cities defeats the king of France's royal army. * 1346 – Charles IV, Count of Luxembourg and King of Bohemia, is elected King of the Romans. *1405 – Ming admiral Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time. * 1410 – Ottoman Interregnum: Süleyman Çelebi defeats ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1558 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * Elizabeth I ascends the throne of England Works published * Joachim du Bellay, France: ** ''Des Antiquités de Rome'' ("Antiquities of Rome")"La vie de Louise Labé" a chronology, retrieved May 17, 2009. 2009-05-20. ** ''Les Regrets'', melancholy satire,Kurian, George Thomas, ''Timetables of World Literature'', New York: Facts on File Inc., 2003, a sonnet sequence, including "Heureux qui comme Ulysse"Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., ''The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'', 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications ** ''Divers Jeux Rustiques'' ** ''Poésies latines'' * |
Jacques Grévin
Jacques Grévin (''c''. 1539 – 5 November 1570) was a French playwright. Grévin was born at Clermont, Oise in about 1539, and he studied medicine at the University of Paris. He became a disciple of Ronsard, and was one of the band of dramatists who sought to introduce the classical drama in France. As Sainte-Beuve points out, the comedies of Grévin show considerable affinity with the farces and that preceded them. His first play, ''La Maubertine'' was lost, and formed the basis of a new comedy, ''La Trésorière'', first performed at the college of Beauvais in 1558, though it had been originally composed at the desire of Henry II to celebrate the marriage of Claude, duchess of Lorraine. He got engaged to the writer Nicole Estienne and he celebrated her in his collection ''L'Olimpe''. The engagement was broken for unknown reasons. In 1560 followed the tragedy of ''Jules César'', imitated from the Latin of Muret, and a comedy, ''Les Ébahis'', the most important but also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Watson (bishop Of Lincoln)
Thomas Watson (1515 – 27 September 1584) was a Catholic Bishop, notable among Catholics for his descriptions of the Protestant Reformation. Historian Albert Pollard described Watson as "one of the chief Catholic controversialists" of Mary Tudor's reign. Early life Watson was born near Durham in 1515. He grew up in a monastic world at Nun Stainton, near Durham. Little about his earliest schooling is known, but for entrance to Cambridge University, he would have studied at Durham's Priory School. ''The Rites of Durham'', written in about 1593, recalls life in Durham Cathedral before the Dissolution. Watson describes the school, and the last schoolmaster, Robert Hartburne, as a venerable and learned monk, always looking for a bright pupil who was "apt to learning, and did apply his book, and had a pregnant wit with all" to groom for university entrance. He left for St John's College, Cambridge in 1529. The majority of staff and students of the university, under their Chancello ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
