1584 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1584. Events Master Thomas Giles takes charge of the Children of Paul's, a company of boy actors. This is the start of a close association with the works of John Lyly. London printer John Twyn is hanged, drawn and quartered for producing an edition of Gregory Martin's Catholic A Treatise of Schisme (1578). New books Prose Giordano Bruno – La Cena de le Ceneri (Ash Wednesday Supper) John Dee – 48 Claves angelicae (48 Angelic Keys, written in Kraków) James VI of Scotland – Some Reulis and Cautelis to be observit and eschewit in Scottis poesie David Powel – The Historie of Cambria, now called Wales (first printed history of Wales) Reginald Scot – The Discoverie of Witchcraft Richard Stanihurst – De rebus in Hibernia gestis (Of matters in the history of Ireland) Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer – Spiegel der Zeevaerdt (Mariners' Mirror, English 1588, Latin 1591)