1576 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 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. unknown dates The composer Richard Farrant opens the first Blackfriars Theatre in London, presenting plays performed by the Children of the Chapel. The composer Thomas Whythorne writes a Booke of songs and sonetts with longe discourses sett with them, an early example of autobiographical writing in English. New books Prose 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