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New books

1501

The Book of Margery Kempe (posthumous)

1503

The Thrissill and the Rois - William Dunbar

1505

The Passtyme of Pleasure and The Temple of Glass - Stephen Hawes

1508

The Goldyn Targe - William Dunbar

1509

In Praise of Folly - Erasmus

1512

Fulgens and Lucrece - Henry Medwall

1513

First translation of Virgil's Aeneid into English language (Scots dialect) by Gavin Douglas

1514-15

Sofonisba - Gian Giorgio Trissino

1515

The New Chronicles of England and France by Robert Fabyan

1516

Utopia by Thomas More

1517

Francysk Skaryna's Bible translation and printing
Teofilo Folengo's Baldo, a popular Italian work of comedy.

1526

William Tyndale's Bible translation

1527

Historia Scotorum - Hector Boece

1528

The Book of the Courtier by Baltissare Castiglione

1531

De trinitatis erroribus ("On the Errors of the Trinity") - Michael Servetus

1532

The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

1534

Martin Luther's Bible translation

1535

Huon of Bordeaux - John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners

1538

Les Angoisses douloureuses qui procèdent d'amours - Hélisenne de Crenne

1539

The Castel of Helth - Sir Thomas Elyot

1540

Historia Scotorum of Hector Boece, translated into vernacular Scots by John Bellenden at the special request of James V of Scotland

1541

Baptistes and Jephtha - George Buchanan

1542

The Union of the Two Noble and Illustrate Famelies of Lancastre & Yorke - Edward Hall

1543

De humani corporis fabrica libri septem (On the Fabric of the Human body in Seven Books) – Andreas Vesalius
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres) – Nicolaus Copernicus

1545

Toxophilus - Roger Ascham

1547

The Simple Words of Catechism - Martynas Mažvydas (first printed book in Lithuanian language)

1549

Johannes der Täufer (St. John Baptist) - Johannes Aal

1552

Libellus de Medicinalibus Indorum Herbis (Little Book of the Medicinal Herbs of the Indians), composed in Nahuatl by Martín de la Cruz and translated into Latin by Juan Badiano.

1553

(about 1553) – Gammer Gurton's Needle and Ralph Roister Doister, the first comedies written in the English language

1559

The Elizabethan version of the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England, which remained in use until the mid-17th century and was the first English Prayer Book in America.
Jorge de Montemayor - Diana

1560

Geneva Bible - William Whittingham, Anthony Gilby, Thomas Sampson
Jules César - Jacques Grévin

1562

Bullein's Bulwarke of Defence againste all Sicknes, Sornes, and Woundes - William Bullein

1563

Foxe's Book of Martyrs - John Foxe

1576

Six livres de la République - Jean Boudin

1577

The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Irelande - Raphael Holinshed
The History of Travayle in the West and East Indies - Richard Eden

1578

A True Discourse of the Late Voyages of Discoverie…under the Conduct of Martin Frobisher - George Best
Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit - John Lyly
First Fruits - John Florio
Smithus, vel Musarum lachrymae - Gabriel Harvey

1579

Honest Excuses - Thomas Lodge
The Schoole of Abuse - Stephen Gosson

1582

Divers Voyages - Richard Hakluyt
Rerum Scoticarum Historia - George Buchanan

1583

The Anatomy of Abuses - Philip Stubbes

1584

The Araygnement of Paris - George Peele

1585

La Galatea - Miguel de Cervantes

1586

A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia - Thomas Hariot
Historie of the Reformatioun of Religioun within the Realms of Scotland - John Knox
The Raigne of Edward III - anonymous, attributed by some to William Shakespeare
The Arte of English Poesie - attributed to George Puttenham
Primera parte de la Angélica - Luis Barahona de Soto
Pappe with an hatchet, alias a figge for my Godsonne - John Lyly

1588

The Anatomie of Absurditie - Thomas Nashe

1590

An Almond for a Parrat - Thomas Nashe
Rosalynde - Thomas Lodge

1592

Groatsworth of Wit - Robert Greene
Foure Letters and certaine Sonnets - Gabriel Harvey
Nine Worthies of London - Richard Johnson

1594

Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie - Richard Hooker
The Seamans Secrets - Sir John Davys

1595

An Apologie for Poetrie - Sir Philip Sidney (posthumous)
Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia - Thomas Harriot
Colin Clouts Come Home Againe - Edmund Spenser

1596

The Civell Warres of Edward the Second and the Barrons - Michael Drayton
The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Beautiful Empyre of Guiana - Sir Walter Raleigh

1597

Englands Heroicall Epistles - Michael Drayton

1598

Palladis Tamia, Wits Treasury - Francis Meres
Politeuphuia (Wits' Commonwealth) - John Bodenham
Survey of London - John Stow
The Trew Law of Free Monarchies - King James VI of Scotland

1599

The Shoemaker's Holiday - Thomas Dekker
Patient Grissel - Thomas Dekker, Henry Chettle, and William Haughton
Wits' Theater - John Bodenham

New drama

1541

Orbecche - Giovanni Battista Giraldi

1562

Gorboduc - Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville
Jack Juggler - anonymous, sometimes attributed to Nicholas Udall

1573

Aminta - Torquato Tasso

1582

Il pastor fido - Giovanni Battista Guarini

1584

Campaspe - John Lyly
Sapho and Phao - John Lyly
The Three Ladies of London - Robert Wilson (published)

1588

The Battle of Alcazar - George Peele (performed)

1590

Famous Chronicle of King Edward the First - George Peele
Tamburlaine, - Christopher Marlowe (both parts published)
The Three Lords and Three Ladies of London - Robert Wilson (published)

1591

Endymion - John Lyly (published)
The Troublesome Reign of King John - Anonymous (published)

1592

Henry VI, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 - William Shakespeare
The Spanish Tragedy - Thomas Kyd
Arden of Faversham - anonymous (previously attributed to Shakespeare)

1594

The Battle of Alcazar - George Peele (published)
Cleopatra - Samuel Daniel
The Cobbler's Prophecy - Robert Wilson (published)
Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay - Robert Greene (published)
A Looking Glass for London and England - Thomas Lodge & Robert Greene (published)
Orlando Furioso - Robert Greene (published)
Romeo and Juliet -William Shakespeare