1576 in literature

Template:Short description Template:Year nav topic5 The following literary events and publications occurred in the year 1576.

Events

December – James Burbage opens The Theatre, the second permanent public playhouse in London (and the first to have a substantial life – 22 years), ushering in the great age of Elizabethan drama.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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- The composer Richard Farrant opens the first Blackfriars Theatre in London, presenting plays performed by the Children of the Chapel.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
- The composer Thomas Whythorne writes a Booke of songs and sonetts with longe discourses sett with themTemplate:Sic, an early example of autobiographical writing in English.

Jean Bodin – Les Six livres de la République (The Six Books of the Republic)
Ulpian Fulwell – Ars adulandi, or, The Art of Flattery (dialogues)
Étienne de La Boétie (died 1563) – Discourse on Voluntary Servitude (Discours de la servitude volontaire, published as Le Contr'un)
George Pettie – A Petite Palace of Pettie His Pleasure
Peter Martyr Vermigli (died 1562; edited by Robert le Maçon) – Loci Communes
George Whetstone – The Rocke of Regard

Luigi Pasqualigo – Il Fedele
George Wapull – The Tide Tarrieth No Man published<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

See 1576 in poetry
Tulsidas – Ramcharitmanas
The Paradise of Dainty Devices, the most popular of the Elizabethan verse miscellanies

January 12 – Petrus Scriverius, Dutch historian (died 1660)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
May 27 – Caspar Schoppe, German controversialist (died 1649)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
June 6 – Giovanni Diodati, Bible translator (died 1649)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
October – John Marston, English dramatist and poet (died 1634)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
October 30 – Enrico Caterino Davila, Italian historian (died 1631)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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- William Ames, English philosopher (died 1633)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Johann Bogermann, Dutch translator (died 1637)
- Samuel Collins, theologian (died 1651)
- Charles Fitzgeoffrey, Elizabethan poet (died 1638)
- Goldastus, Swiss Calvinist historian (died 1635)
- John Weever, English poet and antiquary (died 1632)

January 19 – Hans Sachs, German poet and dramatist (born 1494)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
February 10 – Wilhelm Xylander, German classical scholar (born 1532)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
March 18 – Johann Stössel, German Lutheran theologian (born 1524; died in prison)
May 2 – Bartolomé Carranza, Spanish theologian (born 1503)
June 30 – Franciscus Sonnius, Flemish theologian (born 1506)
October 14 – Konrad Heresbach, Calvinist writer (born 1496)
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- Basil Faber, German theologian (born 1520)
- Aloysius Lilius, Italian philosopher (born c. 1510)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Lancelot Ridley, English theologian<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Mavro Vetranović, Croatian Benedictine poet and author (born 1482)