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{{unreferenced|date=February 2013}}{{Year nav topic5|1590|literature}}This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1590. Events- The Children of Paul's perform at the English Court twice in the first week of January; one of the plays they acted may have been John Lyly's Midas. Later in the year, however, they are banned from performing because of the involvement of their chief script-writer, Lyly, in the Marprelate controversy.
- Teatro all'antica at Sabbioneta (Italy), designed by Vincenzo Scamozzi, is completed.
New books- Robert Greene
- Greene's Mourning Garment
- Never Too Late
- Thomas Lodge – Rosalynde
- Thomas Nashe – An Almond for a Parrat
New drama- Anonymous (approximate date)
- Fair Em, the Miller's Daughter of Manchester
- King Leir
- Mucedorus
- Robert Greene
- The Comical History of Alphonsus, King of Aragon (approximate date)
- The History of Orlando Furioso
- The Scottish History of James the Fourth (approximate date)
- with Thomas Lodge – A Looking Glass for London (approximate date)
- Christopher Marlowe – Tamburlaine (both parts published)
- George Peele – Famous Chronicle of King Edward the First
- Robert Wilson – The Three Lords and Three Ladies of London (published)
Poetry- Sir Philip Sidney – Arcadia
- Edmund Spenser – The Faerie Queene, Books 1-3
Births- January 30 – Lady Anne Clifford, English literary patron (died 1676)
- March 18 – Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (died 1649)
- June 24 – Samuel Ampzing, Dutch poet (died 1632)
- July 26 – Johannes Crellius, German-born Polish theologian (died 1633)
- September 12 – María de Zayas, Spanish poet and dramatist (died 1661)
- October 11 – William Pynchon, English-born New England theologian (died 1662)
- Unknown dates
- Alonso Andrada, Spanish biographer (died 1672)
- François Annat, French anti-Jansenist theologian (died 1670)
- Thomas Carve, Irish historian writing in Latin (died c. 1672)
- Faqi Tayran, Kurdish poet (died 1660)
- Grigore Ureche, Moldavian chronicler (died 1647)
- Théophile de Viau, French poet and dramatist (died 1626)
Deaths- January 7 – Jakob Andreae, German theologian (born 1528)
- February 1 – Lawrence Humphrey, English theologian (born c. 1527)
- March – Petru Cercel, Wallachian prince and poet
- July – Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, French poet (born 1544)
- September 20 – Robert Garnier, French poet (born 1544)
- November 23 – André Thévet, French cosmographer (born 1502)
- November 29 – Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin, German poet and dramatist (born 1547)
- December 5 – Johann Habermann, German theologian (born 1516)
- Probable year of death – Lambert Daneau, French theologian (born c. 1535)
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