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1581 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1581.

Events

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  • Stationer Thomas Marsh publishes Seneca's Tragedies in English, a collected edition of ten dramas written by Seneca the Younger (or attributed to him), translated by Jasper Heywood, John Studley, Alexander Neville, Thomas Newton, and Thomas Nuce. Most of the texts have been printed previously, from 1559 onward; but Newton's version of Thebais is new, and earlier printed texts of Studley's versions of Hercules Oetaeus and Hippolytus, if they ever existed, have not survived.[3]
  • John Dee starts to write Libri mysteriorum I-XVIII (Spiritual Diaries).
  • First record of bookselling at No. 1, Trinity Street, Cambridge, England; it will continue to be a bookshop for at least 430 years.[4]

New books

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  • Church of ScotlandThe Second Book of Discipline<ref=>John Hill Burton (1873). The History of Scotland from Agricola's Invasion to the Extinction of the Last Jacobite Insurrection. W. Blackwood and Sons. p. 203.</ref>
  • William LambardeEirenarcha: or of the Office of the Justices of Peace
  • Ostrog Bible
  • Barnabe RicheRiche his Farewell to Militarie Profession conteining verie pleasaunt discourses fit for a peaceable tyme

New drama

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Poetry

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Births

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Probable year

Deaths

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References

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  1. ^ James Bohn (1840). Catalogue of Ancient and Modern Books in All Languages on Sale. C. Richards. p. 672.
  2. ^ Oxford World's Classics ed.
  3. ^ Linda Woodbridge (16 September 2010). English Revenge Drama: Money, Resistance, Equality. Cambridge University Press. p. 131. ISBN 978-1-139-49355-0.
  4. ^ "History". Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 2014-06-11.