1592 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1592. Events February 5–7 – Ulysses Redux, a Latin play by William Gager, is staged by members of Christ Church, Oxford. Two days later, they revive Gager's 1583 Latin play Rivales (now lost). February 26 – The first firmly recorded performance of Christopher Marlowe's The Jew of Malta is given by Lord Strange's Men in London. June 23 – The London theatres close and apart from a brief spell around January 1593 remain so for about 16 months due to an epidemic of bubonic plague. September 3 – The English writer Robert Greene dies in London of a "banquet of Rhenish wine and pickled herring", having apparently completed Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit (published soon after), including a reference to "an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers", taken to be the first published (critical) reference to Shakespeare as a playwright. September 26 – Rivales is performed again by members of Christ Church, with Queen Elizabeth I of England in the audience, during her second visit to the University of Oxford. October–December – Pembroke's Men, an English playing company, is known to be in existence, acting in Leicester and at Court in London. November 9 – The Sixto-Clementine Vulgate is promulgated. December 18 – An entry in the Stationers' Register may refer to Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, perhaps marking the year of its first performance. New books Prose Antonio Agustin – , with woodcuts by Geronima Parasole (the first known printed book with illustrations by a woman) Isaac Casaubon – New edition of Theophrastus's Characteres Blaise de Montluc (died 1577) – 'P. F.' (translator) – The Historie of the Damnable Life, and Deserved Death of Doctor Iohn Faustus Robert Greene (died September 3) The Black Books Messenger A Disputation Between a Hee Conny-Catcher and a Shee Conny-Catcher The Third and Last Part of Conycatching Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit, Bought with a Million of Repentance Greene's Vision, Written at the Instant of his Death Philomela A Quip for an Upstart Courtier Muhammad al-Idrisi (died 1165) – De geographia universali or Kitāb Nuzhat al-mushtāq fī dhikr al-amṣār wa-al-aqṭār wa-al-buldān wa-al-juzur wa-al-madā’ in wa-al-āfāq Richard Johnson – Nine Worthies of London Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer – Thresoor der Zeevaert (Treasure of navigation) Wu Cheng'en (died 1580/2; attributed) – Journey to the West (Xī Yóu Jì)