poetomachia

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"Every Man Out of His Humour" is the first of three "comical satires" which Jonson contributed to what Dekker called the 'poetomachia' or war of the theatres as recent critics have named it.

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  1. A battle of the poets. The quotation refers to a stage quarrel between Ben Jonson and Marston, Dekker, and others at the end of the sixteenth century. Mr. Fleay … regards [“Every Man out of his Humour”] as the cause of the so-called Elizabethan poetomachia. N. and Q., 9th ser., IX. 282.

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  • "Every Man Out of His Humour" is the first of three "comical satires" which Jonson contributed to what Dekker called the 'poetomachia' or war of the theatres as recent critics have named it. —  Every Man in His Humor
  • The circumstances of the origin of this 'poetomachia' are far from clear, and those who have written on the topic, except of late, have not helped to make them clearer. —  Every Man in His Humor
  • 'poetomachia' or war of the theatres as recent critics have named it. —  Every Man in His Humor
 

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  1. Greek ποιητής, poet, + μάχν, fight.
 

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