1562 in literature

TThis article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1562.

Events

January 18 – First performance of Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville's play Gorboduc before Queen Elizabeth I of England. It is the first known English tragedy and the first English-language play to employ blank verse.^[1]
February 14 – French poet Pierre de Bocosel de Chastelard is discovered hiding under the bed of Mary, Queen of Scots. He is executed about a week later.
July 12 – Fray Diego de Landa, acting Bishop of Yucatán, burns the Maya codices (sacred books of the Maya) during the Spanish conquest of Yucatán.

Magdeburger Centurien (Magdeburg Centuries), volumes V and VI
Melchior Cano – De Locis theologicis (posthumously published)
Petrus Ramus – Grammaire française
Richard Smyth – De Missa Sacrificio
Jacques de la Taille – Maniére de faire des vers en français comme en grec et en Latin (How to make verse in French like that in Greek and Latin)

January 20 – Ottavio Rinuccini, Italian poet (died 1621)
January 31 (bapt.) – Edward Blount, English publisher (died 1632)
March 27 – Jacob Gretser, German Jesuit writer (died 1625)
August – Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola, Spanish poet and historian (died 1631)
November 25 – Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and dramatist (died 1635)
Unknown dates
- Samuel Daniel, English poet (died 1619)
- Johann Mechtel, German chronicler (died c. 1631)

February – Pierre de Bocosel de Chastelard, French poet (born 1540, executed)
July 23 – Götz von Berlichingen, German knight immortalized by Goethe (born c. 1480)
September 5 – Katharina Zell, Protestant writer (born c. 1497)
November 6 – Achille Bocchi, Italian humanist writer (born 1488)
November 12 – Pietro Martire Vermigli, Italian theologian (born 1499)
Probable year – George Cavendish, English biographer (born 1494)

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