1539 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1539. Events April – Printing of the Great Bible (The Byble in Englyshe) is completed; it is distributed to churches in England. Prepared by Myles Coverdale, it contains much material from the Tyndale Bible – unacknowledged as the Tyndale version is officially deemed heretical. Unknown dates Game Place House in Great Yarmouth becomes the first place in England to be used regularly as a public theatre. Marie Dentière writes an open letter to Marguerite of Navarre, sister of King Francis I of France. This Epistre tres utile (very useful letter) calls for an expulsion of Catholic clergy from France. The first printing press in North America is set up in Mexico City. The first known book from it, Manual de Adultos, appears in 1540. Teseo Ambrogio's Introductio in Chaldaicam lingua, Syriaca atq Armenica, & dece alias linguas, published in Pavia, introduces several Middle Eastern languages to Western Europe for the first time. New books Prose Robert Estienne – Alphabetum Hebraicum Martin Luther – On the Councils and the Church