1567 in literature

Events

• October 14 – António Ferreira becomes Desembargador da Casa do Civel and leaves Coimbra for Lisbon.
• unknown dates
• *John Brayne builds the Red Lion theatre just east of the City of London. It is for touring productions and the first known playhouse to be purpose-built in the British Isles since Roman times. However, there is little evidence that the theatre survives beyond this summer's season. The only play known to be presented here is The Story of Sampson.
• *Spanish playwright Lope de Rueda's works are published posthumously by Timoneda, who tones down certain passages.
• Approximate date – Isabella Whitney becomes the earliest identified woman to publish secular poetry in the English language with The Copy of a Letter, Lately Written in Meter by a Young Gentlewoman: to her Unconstant Lover, The Admonition by the Author to all Young Gentlewomen: And to all other Maids being in Love and An Order Prescribed, by Is. W., to two of her Younger Sisters Serving in London.

  New books

Prose

• Séon Carsuel, Bishop of the Isles – Foirm na n-Urrnuidheadh, translation of John Knox's Book of Common Order, with some poems and prayers, into Classical Gaelic, the first publication in any Goidelic language,
• Joan Perez de Lazarraga – Silbero, Silbia, Doristeo, and Sirena
• Magdeburger Centurien Magdeburg Centuries, volumes X–XI
• William Salesbury – Testament Newydd ein Arglwydd Iesv Christ, translation of the New Testament into Welsh

  Drama

• Jean-Antoine de Baïf – Le Brave
• John Pickering – Horestes, based on the myth of Orestes

  Poetry

• Pey de Garros – Poesias Gasconas

  Births

• January 6 – Richard Burbage, English actor-manager
• February 12 – Thomas Campion, English poet
• February 27 – William Alabaster, English poet, dramatist and religious writer
• August 21 – Francis de Sales, Savoyard theologian
• November – Thomas Nashe, English poet and satirist
• unknown dates
• *Valens Acidalius, German critic and Latin poet
• *Bzovius, Polish historian

  Deaths

• May 2 – Marin Držić, Croatian dramatist
• May 31 – Guido de Bres, author of the Belgic Confession
• October 1 – Pietro Carnesecchi, humanist philosopher
• unknown dates
• *Nicolaus Mameranus, Luxembourgeois poet and historian
• *Gómez Pereira, Spanish humanist philosopher

  In literature

• Walter Scott – The Abbot