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Meaning of Poetomachia | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

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.

historical

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

poetress poëtrie Poetries poetry poetry in motion poetry reading

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