The Poetaster by Ben Jonson

The Poetaster

Ben Jonson

216 pages first pub 1985 (editions)

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First performed in 1601, this satire formed part of the exchange between Jonson and his rivals John Marston and Thomas Dekker in the so-called 'Poetomachia' or War of the Theatres of 1599-1601. The term 'poetaster' refers to an inferior poet with ...

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