Calendar of Literary Facts

1593

  • The first part of Richard Hooker’s Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity is published
  • Michael Drayton publishes Idea the Shepheards Garland, Fashioned in Nine Eglogs. Rowlands Sacrifice to the Nine Muses
  • George Herbert is born (April 3)
  • Izaak Walton is born (August 9)
  • Christopher Marlowe dies (May 30)