Poetomachia

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Etymology

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Coined by Thomas Dekker. See poet and μάχη (mákhē, “battle”).

Proper noun

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the Poetomachia

  1. (historical) A controversy in later Elizabethan theater, involving a number of playwrights satirizing each other with their plays, in a period when verse and prose satire was banned due to the Bishops' Ban of 1599.
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