1562 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1562.Events
Prose
- Magdeburger Centurien , volumes V and VI
- Melchior Cano – De Locis theologicis
- Petrus Ramus – Grammaire française
- Richard Smyth – De Missa Sacrificio
Drama
- Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville – Gorboduc
Poetry
- Arthur Brooke – The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet
Births
- January 20 – Ottavio Rinuccini, Italian poet
- January 31 – Edward Blount, English publisher
- March – Francis Johnson, English Separatist theologian and polemicist
- March 27 – Jacob Gretser, German Jesuit writer
- August – Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola, Spanish poet and historian
- November 25 – Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and dramatist
- Unknown dates
- *Samuel Daniel, English poet
- *Johann Mechtel, German chronicler
Deaths
- July 23 – Götz von Berlichingen, German knight immortalized by Goethe
- September 5 – Katharina Zell, Protestant writer
- November 6 – Achille Bocchi, Italian humanist writer
- November 12 – Pietro Martire Vermigli, Italian theologian
- Probable year – George Cavendish, English biographer
