Stephen Gosson
Stephen Gosson (April 1554 - February 13, 1624 ) was an English satirist and clergyman in the Church of England .
Stephen Gosson was baptized on April 17, 1554 in St Georges Church in Canterbury . From 1572 to 1576 he attended Corpus Christi College in Oxford , after which he went to London . There he published his Schoole of Abuse in 1579 , containing a pleasant invective against Poets, Pipers, Plaiers, Jesters and such like Caterpillars of the Commonwealth , a violent polemic against the theater. Against the countermeasures he had Playes Confuted in Five Actions follow in 1582 . From 1585 he worked as a clergyman in Stepney , later in Great Wigborough , Essex , and from 1600 in Bishopsgate .
swell
- Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition
- Oxford Dictionary of National Bibliography
literature
- Arthur F. Kinney: Markets of bawdrie. The dramatic criticism of Stephen Gosson . Institute for English Language and Literature, Salzburg 1974.
- William A. Ringler: Stephen Gosson. A biographical and critical study . University Press, Princeton 1942 (Princeton Studies in English; Vol. 25).
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| SURNAME | Gosson, Stephen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English satirist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 1554 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | baptized Canterbury |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 13, 1624 |