The Poetaster
play by Jonson
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discussed in biography
- In Ben Jonson: Theatrical career
1600) and Poetaster (1601). Even in these, however, there is the paradox of contempt for human behaviour hand in hand with a longing for human order.
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reaction by Dekker
- In Thomas Dekker
…was satirized in Ben Jonson’s Poetaster (produced 1601) as Demetrius Fannius, “a very simple honest fellow. . . a dresser of plays.” This precipitated Dekker’s own attack on Jonson in the play Satiro-mastix (produced 1601). Thirteen more plays survive in which Dekker collaborated with such figures as Thomas Middleton, John…
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satirization of Marston
- In John Marston
” In Poetaster (produced 1601) Jonson depicted Marston as Crispinus, a character with red hair and small legs who was given a pill that forced him to disgorge a pretentious vocabulary.
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