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Poetomachia
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English
War of the Theatres
Etymology
Coined by Thomas Dekker (writer) Thomas Dekker. See en poet and grc μάχη battle.
Proper noun
the Poetomachia
en 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.