1567 in literature

• October 14 – António Ferreira becomes Desembargador da Casa do Civel and leaves Coimbra for Lisbon.{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Ferreira, Antonio|volume=10|page=285}}
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• 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.{{cite book |last1=Bowsher |first1=Julian |last2=Miller |first2=Pat |title=The Rose and the Globe — Playhouses of Shakespeare's Bankside, Southwark |year=2010 |publisher=Museum of London |isbn=978-1-901992-85-4 |page=19}}{{Citation |url=http://www.crossrail.co.uk/assets/library/document/0/original/0004-r-redliontheatre.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927072504/http://www.crossrail.co.uk/assets/library/document/0/original/0004-r-redliontheatre.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-09-27 |title=Red Lion Theatre, Whitechapel |first=Christopher |last=Phillpotts |series=CrossRail Documentary Report |publisher=Museum of London Archaeology Service |accessdate=2011-03-21 }}
• Spanish playwright Lope de Rueda's works are published following his death in 1565 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 (signed "I.W."), 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.{{cite book |editor=Cox, Michael |title=The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature |url=https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm |url-access=registration |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2004 |isbn=0-19-860634-6}}

• 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, (printed in Latin script by Robert Lekprevik in Edinburgh and published April 24)
• Joan Perez de Lazarraga – Silbero, Silbia, Doristeo, and Sirena (MS in Basque)
• Magdeburger Centurien Magdeburg Centuries, volumes X–XI
• William Salesbury – Testament Newydd ein Arglwydd Iesv Christ, translation of the New Testament into Welsh (printed by Humphrey Toy in London and published October 7)

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

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• Pey de Garros – Poesias Gasconas

• January 6 – Richard Burbage, English actor-manager (died 1619)
• January 12 – Jan Szczęsny Herburt, Polish diplomat and political writer (died 1616)
• February 12 – Thomas Campion, English poet (died 1620){{cite web |title=Thomas Campion {{!}} English poet and musician |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Campion |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=20 April 2021 |language=en}}
• February 27 – William Alabaster, English poet, dramatist and religious writer (died 1640){{cite ODNB|id=265|first=Francis J. |last=Bremer|title=Alabaster, William}}
• August 21 – Francis de Sales, Savoyard theologian (died 1622)
• November – Thomas Nashe, English poet and satirist (died c. 1601)Nicholl, Charles. A Cup of News: The Life of Thomas Nashe. Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1984. Page 11.
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• Valens Acidalius, German critic and Latin poet (died 1595){{Cite web|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01104c.htm|title = CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Valens Acidalius}}
• Bzovius, Polish historian (died 1637)

• May 2 – Marin Držić, Croatian dramatist (born 1508){{cite book |author= Živojin Boškov |editor = Živan Milisavac |date=1971 |title=Jugoslovenski književni leksikon |trans-title=Yugoslav Literary Lexicon |publisher=Matica srpska |language=sh |location= Novi Sad (SAP Vojvodina, SR Serbia) |page=106 }}
• May 31 – Guido de Bres, author of the Belgic Confession (executed, born 1522)
• October 1 – Pietro Carnesecchi, humanist philosopher (executed, born 1508)
• unknown dates
• Nicolaus Mameranus, Luxembourgeois poet and historian (born 1500)
• Gómez Pereira, Spanish humanist philosopher (born 1500)

• Walter Scott – The Abbot (1820)

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