1572 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1572.

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Events

January 3 – James Burbage, on behalf of Leicester's Men, writes to their patron, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, requesting that they be given the special status of "household servants".^[1]
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- Vagabonds Act in England prescribes punishment for rogues. This includes actors' companies lacking formal patronage.^[2]
- George Gascoigne becomes a "soldier of fortune" in the Low Countries.

Births

January 7 – Antoine de Gaudier, French Jesuit theologian (died 1622)
January 22 (earliest possible date) – John Donne, English poet and Dean of St Paul's (died 1631)^[7]
June 11 (approximate) – Ben Jonson, English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor (died 1637)^[8]
July 25 – Theodorus Schrevelius, Dutch Golden Age poet (died 1649)

Unknown date – James Mabbe, English scholar, poet and translator (died 1642)

Deaths

March 27 – Girolamo Maggi, Italian poet and polymath (born c. 1523)
April 12 – Jean Crespin, French martyrologist and printer (born c. 1520)
June 28 – Johannes Goropius Becanus, Dutch humanist writer and linguist (born 1519)
September 23 – Henry Scrimgeour, Scottish diplomat and book collector (born 1505)
September – Denis Lambin, French classicist (born 1520)

References

[1]
Chambers, E. K. (1923). The Elizabethan Stage. Vol. 2. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 87–8. (Spellings modernized.)
[2]
Anthony Fletcher; Peter Roberts (2 November 2006). Religion, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain: Essays in Honour of Patrick Collinson. Cambridge University Press. p. 29. ISBN 978-0-521-02804-2.
[3]
Hans Niels Jahnke. A History of Analysis. American Mathematical Soc. p. 213. ISBN 978-0-8218-9050-9.
[4]
Noirot-Maguire, Corinne (February 2010), Persels, J.; Ganim, R. (eds.), "Conjurer le mal: Jean de La Taille et le paradoxe de la tragédie humaniste", EMF: Studies in Early Modern France, vol. 13: Spectacle in Late Medieval and Early Modern France, pp. 121–43
[5]
Preminger, Alex; Brogan, T. V. F. Brogan; et al. (1993). The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications.
[6]
Kaplan, Gregory B., ed. (2005). "Fernando de Herrera". Dictionary of Literary Biography. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Vol. 318: Sixteenth-Century Spanish Writers. University of Tennessee; Gale. pp. 113–119.
[7]
David Colclough (2003). John Donne's Professional Lives. DS Brewer. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-85991-775-9.
[8]
Ben Jonson (1999). Five Plays. Oxford University Press. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-19-283944-2.

[1]
Chambers, E. K. (1923). The Elizabethan Stage. Vol. 2. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 87–8. (Spellings modernized.)
[2]
Anthony Fletcher; Peter Roberts (2 November 2006). Religion, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain: Essays in Honour of Patrick Collinson. Cambridge University Press. p. 29. ISBN 978-0-521-02804-2.
[3]
Hans Niels Jahnke. A History of Analysis. American Mathematical Soc. p. 213. ISBN 978-0-8218-9050-9.
[4]
Noirot-Maguire, Corinne (February 2010), Persels, J.; Ganim, R. (eds.), "Conjurer le mal: Jean de La Taille et le paradoxe de la tragédie humaniste", EMF: Studies in Early Modern France, vol. 13: Spectacle in Late Medieval and Early Modern France, pp. 121–43
[5]
Preminger, Alex; Brogan, T. V. F. Brogan; et al. (1993). The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications.
[6]
Kaplan, Gregory B., ed. (2005). "Fernando de Herrera". Dictionary of Literary Biography. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Vol. 318: Sixteenth-Century Spanish Writers. University of Tennessee; Gale. pp. 113–119.
[7]
David Colclough (2003). John Donne's Professional Lives. DS Brewer. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-85991-775-9.
[8]
Ben Jonson (1999). Five Plays. Oxford University Press. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-19-283944-2.

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