1584 in literature

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Events

• Master Thomas Giles takes charge of the Children of Paul's; this is the start of a close association with the works of John Lyly.

New books

• A Booke of Cookry
• 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
• David Powel - Historie of Cambria
• Reginald Scot - Discoverie of Witchcraft
• "John Soowthern" - Pandora

New drama

• Robert Wilson (attr.) - The Three Ladies of London

Poetry

See 1584 in poetry

Births

• August 29 - Patrick Young, scholar and Scottish royal librarian (died 1652)
• September 15 - Georg Rudolf Weckherlin, poet (died 1653)

Deaths

• July 23 - John Day, English Protestant printer (born c.1522)
• date unknown - Gerhard Dorn, philosopher, translator and polymath (born c.1530)