1591 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1591. Events May – A dispute with James Burbage impels the Admiral's Men to leave The Theatre and move to Philip Henslowe's Rose Theatre in London. Summer – Sir Walter Ralegh secretly marries Elizabeth Throckmorton. October 4 – John Lyly's Midas is entered in the Stationers' Register. November 8 – Publisher Thomas Millington becomes a "freeman" (full member) of the Stationers' Company. Poet and historian Andrea Cornaro founds in Candia (modern-day Heraklion on Crete) the philological academy L’Accademia degli Stravaganti ("Academy of the Strange"), his brother, poet Vitsentzos Kornaros, being among the other members. Publication of the first of the Conimbricenses commentaries on Aristotle by the Jesuits of the University of Coimbra, Commentarii Collegii Conimbricensis Societatis Jesu in octo libros physicorum Aristotelis Stagyritæ, on Aristotle's Physics. New books Prose Andrea Alciato – Emblemata Robert Greene – Greene's Farewell to Folly John Greenwood – A Breife Refutation of Mr George Giffard, etc. Melis Stoke – Rijmkroniek (History of the Netherlands, written in the 14th century) "A. W." – A Book of Cookrye