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Coined by Thomas Dekker. See poet and μάχη (mákhē, “battle”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Poetomachia
Today it means: 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. Full definition →