1562 in literature

Template:Short description Template:Year nav topic5 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

January 13 – Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet and soldier of fortune (died 1601)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
January 20 – Ottavio Rinuccini, Italian poet (died 1621)
January 31 (bapt.) – Edward Blount, English publisher (died 1632)
March – Francis Johnson, English Separatist theologian and polemicist (died 1618)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
March 27 – Jacob Gretser, German Jesuit writer (died 1625)<ref>Jacob Gretser</ref>
August – Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola, Spanish poet and historian (died 1631)
November 25 – Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and dramatist (died 1635)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Unknown dates
- Henry Constable, English poet (died 1613)<ref>Template:Cite EB1911</ref>
- Samuel Daniel, English poet (died 1619)
- Francis Godwin, English writer and bishop (died 1633)
- Johann Mechtel, German chronicler (died c. 1631)

July 23 – Götz von Berlichingen, German knight immortalized by Goethe (born c. 1480)
September 5 – Katharina Zell, Protestant writer (born c. 1497)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
November 6 – Achille Bocchi, Italian humanist writer (born 1488)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
November 12 – Pietro Martire Vermigli, Italian theologian (born 1499)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Unknown dates
- Matteo Bandello, Italian novelist (b. 1480)
- Nicholas Grimald, English poet and theologian (b. 1519)
Probable year – George Cavendish, English biographer (born 1494)