1585 in literature

Template:Short description Template:Year nav topic5 Template:Use British English This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1585.

Events

February 2 – Hamnet and Judith, twin children of William Shakespeare and his wife Anne, are baptised at Stratford-upon-Avon.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
March 3 – The Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza, designed by Andrea Palladio, and completed by Vincenzo Scamozzi, opens with a production of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex), using trompe-l'œil scenery in one-point perspective.
December 13 – The blind poet, playwright and actor Luigi Groto dies in Venice, having just come from the theatre, where he has played the role of the blind Oedipus Rex.

John Calvin – The Commentaries... upon the Actes of the Apostles, Faithfully translated out of Latine into English for the great profite of our countrie-men, by Christopher Fetherstone, student in divinitie
Miguel de Cervantes – La Galatea

January 6 – Claude Favre de Vaugelas, French grammarian (died 1650)
January 31 – Daniel Schwenter, German Orientalist, polymath, poet and librarian (died 1636)
March 16 – Gerbrand Bredero, Dutch poet and playwright (died 1618)
June 24 – Johannes Lippius, German Protestant theologian, philosopher, and theorist of music (died 1612)
October 11 – Johann Heermann, German poet (died 1647)
December 4 – John Cotton, English-born American theologian and minister (died 1652)
December 13 – William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet (died 1649)

Uncertain dates

Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland, née Elizabeth Tanfield, English poet, translator and dramatist (died 1639)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Diego Jiménez de Enciso, Spanish dramatist (died 1634)

January – Anthony Gilby, English Puritan and Bible translator (born c. 1510)
February 6 – Edmund Plowden, English lawyer and theorist (born 1518)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
February 13 – Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit Biblical commentator (born 1515)
March 10 – Rembert Dodoens, Flemish botanist (born 1517)
June 4 – Muretus, French humanist poet and writer in Latin (born 1526)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
June 20 – Christian Kruik van Adrichem, Dutch Catholic theologian (born 1533)
July 30 – Christian Schesaus, German humanist poet (born 1535)
September 1 – Alexander Arbuthnot, Scottish printer (year of birth unknown)
September 18 – Molanus, Flemish theologian of the Counter Reformation (born 1533)<ref>A. C. De Schrevel, "Lucas, François, dit Lucas Brugensis", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 12 (Brussels, 1893), 550-563.</ref>
December 8 – Piero Vettori, Italian humanist philologist and writer (born 1499)
December 27 – Pierre de Ronsard, French poet (born 1524)