1577 in literature

Template:Short description Template:Year topic navigation This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1577.

Events

The Curtain Theatre is built in London.
December 4 – John of the Cross, while imprisoned in Toledo, Spain, composes his Spiritual Canticle.<ref>Dom Philippe Chevalier. "Le Cantique spirituel de saint Jean de la Croix a-t-il été interpolé?". Bulletin Hispanique (October–December 1922) pp. 307–342 (French).</ref>

Certain Selected Histories for Christian Recreations (translation of Gesta Romanorum)
Richard Eden – The History of Travayle in the West and East Indies
John Frampton – Template:Transliteration, translated from the 1565 Spanish edition of Nicolás Monardes' Historia medicinal de las cosas que se traen de nuestras Indias Occidentales
Thomas Hill – The Gardener's Labyrinth
Raphael Holinshed – The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Irelande<ref>Kewes, Paulina; Archer, Ian W.; Felicity Heal, eds. (2013). The Oxford Handbook of Holinshed's Chronicles. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Template:ISBN.</ref>
Marcin Kromer – Polonia sive de situ, populis, moribus, magistratibus et Republica regni Polonici libri duo
Teresa of Ávila – Camino de Perfección
Johann Weyer – De praestigiis daemonum

Arthur Golding – Abraham's Sacrifice published (translated from Theodore Beza's French play)

February 8 – Robert Burton, English scholar and author (died 1640)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
March/April – Gerhard Johann Vossius, Dutch theologian (died 1649)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
November 10 – Jacob Cats, Dutch poet (died 1660)
November 20 (baptized) – Samuel Purchas, English travel writer (died 1626)
unknown dates
- Richard Sibbes, English theologian (died 1635)
- Gabriel Sionita, Lebanese-born Maronite Bible translator (died 1648)
- Samuel Ward, English Puritan preacher and writer (died 1640)

March 6 – Remy Belleau, French poet (born 1528)
April 21 – Girolamo Parabosco, Italian poet and musician (born c. 1524)
May 5 – Viglius, Frisian statesman and writer (born 1507)
October 7 – George Gascoigne, English poet (born c. 1535)
Unknown dates
- Richard Jugge, English printer (date of birth unknown)
- Ralph Robinson, English writer and translator (born 1520 in literature)