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en-wikipedia-org-4538		Poetaster (play) - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	940	114	72	Poetaster (play) Wikipedia Play written by Ben Jonson Poetaster is a late Elizabethan satirical comedy written by Ben Jonson that was first performed in 1601. The title page of the first edition states that the play was performed by the Children of the Chapel, one of the companies of boy actors popular at the time. The play was next published in the first folio collection of Jonson's works (1616). It is widely accepted among scholars and critics that the character of Horace in Poetaster represents Jonson himself, while Crispinus, who vomits up a pretentious and bombastic vocabulary, is Marston, and Demetrius Fannius is Dekker. Smith, eds., The New Intellectuals: A Survey and Bibliography of Recent Studies in English Renaissance Drama, Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1977; pp. Ben Jonson (works) Love's Triumph Through Callipolis Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Poetaster_(play)&oldid=982127636" Categories: Plays by Ben Jonson English Renaissance plays	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4538.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4538.txt