English Explanatory Dictionary

Poetomachia

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. 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.

Word forms

Poetomachia the Poetomachia

Etymology

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

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