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1502 in literature
See also: 15th century in literature, other events of the 16th century, 17th century in literature, list of years in literature.
Events
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 the Aeneid into English language (Scots dialect) by Gavin Douglas
- about 1516 - Utopia by Thomas More
- 1527 - Historia Scotorum - Hector Boece
- 1535 - Huon of Bordeaux - John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners
- 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
- 1545 - Toxophilus - Roger Ascham
- 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.
- 1560 - The Geneva Bible - William Whittingham, Anthony Gilby, Thomas Sampson
- 1562
- 1563
- 1577
- 1578
- 1579
- 1582
- 1583
- 1584
- 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
- 1590
- 1591
- 1592
- 1593
- 1594
- 1595
- 1596
- 1597
- 1598
- 1599
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