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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1562.

Events

January 18 – First performance of Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville's play Gorboduc before Queen Elizabeth I of England. It is the first known English tragedy and the first English-language play to employ blank verse.^[1]
July 12 – Fray Diego de Landa, acting Bishop of Yucatán, burns the Maya codices (sacred books of the Maya) during the Spanish conquest of Yucatán.^[2]

January 13 – Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet and soldier of fortune (died 1601)^[3]
January 20 – Ottavio Rinuccini, Italian poet (died 1621)
January 31 (bapt.) – Edward Blount, English publisher (died 1632)
March – Francis Johnson, English Separatist theologian and polemicist (died 1618)^[4]
March 27 – Jacob Gretser, German Jesuit writer (died 1625)^[5]
August – Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola, Spanish poet and historian (died 1631)
November 25 – Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and dramatist (died 1635)^[6]
Unknown dates
- Henry Constable, English poet (died 1613)^[7]
- Samuel Daniel, English poet (died 1619)
- Francis Godwin, English writer and bishop (died 1633)
- Johann Mechtel, German chronicler (died c. 1631)

July 23 – Götz von Berlichingen, German knight immortalized by Goethe (born c. 1480)
September 5 – Katharina Zell, Protestant writer (born c. 1497)^[8]
November 6 – Achille Bocchi, Italian humanist writer (born 1488)^[9]
November 12 – Pietro Martire Vermigli, Italian theologian (born 1499)^[10]
Unknown dates
- Matteo Bandello, Italian novelist (b. 1480)
- Nicholas Grimald, English poet and theologian (b. 1519)
Probable year – George Cavendish, English biographer (born 1494)

^ "Gorboduc, or the Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrox". Archived from the original on 2007-09-17. Retrieved 2007-11-14.
^ Derek Jones (December 2001). Censorship: A World Encyclopedia. Routledge. p. 1573. ISBN 978-1-136-79864-1.
^ R Horn (1867). Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates. p. 640.
^ Scott Culpepper (2011). Francis Johnson and the English Separatist Influence: The Bishop of Brownism's Life, Writings, and Controversies. Mercer University Press. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-88146-238-8.
^ Jacob Gretser
^ Jo Eldridge Carney (2001). Renaissance and Reformation, 1500-1620: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 361. ISBN 978-0-313-30574-0.
^ Gosse, Edmund William (1911). "Constable, Henry" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). p. 982.
^ Elsie Anne McKee (1999). Katharina Schütz Zell the Life and Thought of a Sixteenth-century Reformer. Vol. 1. Brill. pp. 222–226.
^ Peter G. Bietenholz; Thomas Brian Deutscher (1 January 2003). Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation. University of Toronto Press. p. 157. ISBN 978-0-8020-8577-1.
^ ——— (1967). Peter Martyr in Italy: An Anatomy of Apostasy. Oxford: Clarendon. OCLC 849189667.