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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of literature during 1592. ==Events== *February 5–7 - ''Ulysses Redux'', a Latin play by William Gager, is staged by members of Christ Church, Oxford. Two days later, they revive Gager's 1583 Latin play ''Rivales'' (now lost). *February 26 - First definitely recorded performance of Christopher Marlowe's ''The Jew of Malta'', by Lord Strange's Men in London. *June 23 - The London theatres are closed, remaining so for about 16 months due to an epidemic of bubonic plague (apart from a brief spell around January 1593). *September 3 - English writer Robert Greene dies in London of a "banquet of Rhenish wine and pickled herring",〔According to Thomas Nashe.〕 having apparently completed ''Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit'' (published soon after) including a reference to "an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers", taken to be the first published (critical) reference to Shakespeare as a playwright. *September 26 - ''Rivales'' is performed again by members of Christ Church, with Queen Elizabeth I of England in the audience, during her second visit to the University of Oxford. *October–December - Pembroke's Men, an English playing company, is known to be in existence, acting in Leicester and at Court in London. *Isaac Casaubon publishes his edition of Theophrastus's ''Characteres'', setting him on a career as an editor. *Approximate date of first printing of ''Journey to the West'' (attributed to Wu Cheng'en). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1592 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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