Editing 1591 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in '''1591'''.

==Events==
*May – A dispute with [[James Burbage]] impels the [[Admiral's Men]] to leave [[The Theatre]] and move to [[Philip Henslowe]]'s [[The Rose (theatre)|Rose Theatre]] in London.
*Summer – Sir [[Walter Ralegh]] secretly marries [[Elizabeth Raleigh|Elizabeth Throckmorton]].
*[[October 4]] – [[John Lyly]]'s ''[[Midas (Lyly play)|Midas]]'' is entered in the [[Stationers' Register]].
*[[November 8]] – Publisher [[Thomas Millington (publisher)|Thomas Millington]] becomes a "freeman" (full member) of the [[Stationers' Company]].
*Poet and historian [[Andrea Cornaro (poet and historian)|Andrea Cornaro]] founds in Candia (modern-day [[Heraklion]] on [[Crete]]) the philological academy ''L’Accademia degli Stravaganti'' ("Academy of the Strange"),<ref>{{cite book|first=Giambattista|last=Basile|title=Lo cunto de li cunti|url=https://archive.org/details/locuntodelicunt00basigoog|year=1891|page=[https://archive.org/details/locuntodelicunt00basigoog/page/n253 36]}}</ref> his brother, poet [[Vitsentzos Kornaros]], being among the other members.
*Publication of the first of the [[Conimbricenses]] commentaries on [[Aristotle]] by the [[Jesuits]] of the [[University of Coimbra]], ''Commentarii Collegii Conimbricensis Societatis Jesu in octo libros physicorum Aristotelis Stagyritæ'', on Aristotle's ''[[Physics (Aristotle)|Physics]]''.

==New books==
===Prose===
*[[Andrea Alciato]] – ''Emblemata''
*[[Robert Greene (16th century)|Robert Greene]] – ''Greene's Farewell to Folly''
*[[John Greenwood (Puritan)|John Greenwood]] – ''A Breife Refutation of Mr George Giffard, etc.''
*[[Melis Stoke]] – ''Rijmkroniek'' (History of the Netherlands, written in the 14th century)
*"A. W." – ''A Book of Cookrye''

===Children===
*Anonymous – ''A Pretty and Splendid Maiden's Mirror'' (in Swedish)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hunt |first1=Peter |title=International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature |date=2 August 2004 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-43684-2 |page=1163 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t1RsBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA1163 |language=en}}</ref>

==Drama==
*Anonymous
**''[[Fair Em|Fair Em, the Miller's Daughter of Manchester]]'' (approximate date of first performance)
**''[[Mucedorus]]'' (approximate date of first performance)
**''[[The Troublesome Reign of King John]]'' (perhaps by [[George Peele]]; published)
*[[John Lyly]] – ''[[Endymion (play)|Endymion, the Man in the Moon]]'' (published)
*[[Muretus]] – ''Julius Caesar'' (published)
*[[ Robert Wilmot (playwright)|Robert Wilmot]] – ''Tancred and Gismund'' (published)

===Poetry===
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*[[John Harington (inventor)|Sir John Harington]] – ''Orlando Furioso in English Heroical Verse''
*[[James VI of Scotland]] – ''Lepanto''
*Sir [[Philip Sidney]] (died 1586) – ''[[Astrophel and Stella]]''

==Births==
*[[March 6]] – [[Tommaso Tamburini]], Italian Jesuit theologian (died [[1675 in literature|1675]])
*August – [[Robert Herrick (poet)|Robert Herrick]], English poet (died [[1674 in literature|1674]])
*''Unknown dates''
**[[Thomas Goffe]], English dramatist (died [[1629 in literature|1629]])
**[[Ivan Bunić Vučić]], [[Republic of Ragusa|Ragusa]] poet (died [[1658 in literature|1658]])

==Deaths==
*[[February 28]] – [[Arthur Faunt]], English Jesuit missionary (born [[1554 in literature|1554]])
*[[July 7]] – [[Noël du Fail]], French short story writer (born c. 1520)
*[[July 22]] – [[Veronica Franco]], Venetian poet and courtesan (born [[1546 in literature|1546]])
*[[August 23]] – [[Luis de León]], Castilian poet, theologian and orator (born [[1527 in literature|1527]])
*[[December 21]] – [[John of the Cross]], Castilian poet and friar (born [[1542 in literature|1542]])
*''Unknown date'' – [[Johann Fischart]], German satirist (born c. 1545)

==References==
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