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Events
- The London theatres re-open in the spring, after two years of general inactivity due to the bubonic plague epidemic of 1592–94. Many of the actors who used to be Lord Strange's Men form a new organization, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, under the patronage of Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon, then Lord Chamberlain of England.
- On April 6 and 9, personnel from Queen Elizabeth's Men and Sussex's Men perform the early King Leir at the Rose Theatre.
- The re-organized Admiral's Men begin performances on May 14, with Christopher Marlowe's The Jew of Malta.
- Franciscus Gomarus becomes professor of theology at Leiden.
- The Comedy of Errors is performed at Gray's Inn on December 28.
New books
- Sir John Davys - The Seamans Secrets
- Richard Hooker -Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- The earliest edition of Christopher Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris is undated, but was most probably printed in 1594
- Thomas Nashe - The Unfortunate Traveller
New drama
- Anonymous - A Knack to Know an Honest Man
- Anonymous - Selimus published
- Anonymous - The Taming of a Shrew published
- Anonymous - The True Tragedy of Richard III published
- Samuel Daniel - Cleopatra
- Robert Greene - Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay published
- - Orlando Furioso published
- Thomas Lodge & Robert Greene - A Looking Glass for London published
- Thomas Lodge - The Wounds of Civil War published
- Lope de Vega - El maestro de danzar - (The Dancing Master)
- John Lyly - Mother Bombie published
- Christopher Marlowe (& Thomas Nashe?) - Dido, Queen of Carthage published
- William Shakespeare:
- The Comedy of Errors performed
- Titus Andronicus published
- Robert Wilson - The Cobbler's Prophecy published
Poetry
- Richard Barnfield - The Affectionate Shepherd
- George Chapman - The Shadow of Night
- William Shakespeare - The Rape of Lucrece
- Thomas Storer - Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey
- Henry Willobie - Willobie his Avisa
Births
- January 24 - Pierre de Marca, historian (died 1662)
- date unknown
- Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant, French poet (died 1661)
- John Spelman, historian (died 1643)
- Maria Tesselschade Visscher, Dutch poet (died 1649)
Deaths
- February
- Barnabe Googe, poet (born 1540)
- William Painter, translator (born about 1540)
- April 29 - Thomas Cooper, bishop, lexicographer and writer
- June 3 - John Aylmer, constitutionalist and translator
- July - Girolamo Mei, humanist and historian (born 1519)
- July 16 - Thomas Kyd, dramatist (born 1558)
