Poetomachia

词形变化

the Poetomachia

释义与例句

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  1. 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.

    历史

词源

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

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