See also:

• STEPHEN
• STEPHEN (1097?-1154)
• STEPHEN (ISTVAN) BATHORY (1533-1586)
• STEPHEN, SIR JAMES (1789-1859)
• STEPHEN, SIR JAMES FITZJAMES, BART
• STEPHEN, SIR LESLIE (1832-1904)

STEPHEN See also:

• STEPHEN GOSSON (1554-1624)

GOSSON (1554-1624)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English satirist, was baptized at St See also:

• GEORGE
• GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

George's, See also:

• CANTERBURY
• CANTERBURY, CHARLES

Canterbury, on the 17th of See also:

• APRIL

April 1554 . He entered Corpus Christi See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College, See also:

• OXFORD
• OXFORD, EARLS OF
• OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
• OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
• OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
• OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
• OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST

Oxford, 1572, and on leaving the university in 1576 he went to See also:

• LONDON

London . In 1598 See also:

• FRANCIS
• FRANCIS (FRarrcols) OF SALES, ST (1567-1622)
• FRANCIS (Lat. Franciscus, Ital. Francesco, Span. Francisco, Fr. Francois, Ger. Franz)
• FRANCIS, SIR PHILIP (174o-1818)

Francis See also:

• MERES, FRANCIS (1565-1647)

Meres in his Palladis Tamia mentions him with See also:

• SIDNEY
• SIDNEY (or SYDNEY), ALGERNON (1622-1683)
• SIDNEY, SIR HENRY (1529-1586)
• SIDNEY, SIR PHILIP (1554-1586)

Sidney, See also:

• SPENSER, EDMUND (c. 1552-1599)
• SPENSER, JOHN (1559-1614)

Spenser, See also:

• ABRAHAM, or ABRAM (Hebrew for " father is high ")

Abraham See also:

• FRAUNCE, ABRAHAM (c. 1558-1633)

Fraunce and others among the " best for pastorall," but no pastorals of his are extant . He is said to have been an actor, and by his own See also:

• CONFESSION (Lat. confessio, from confiteor, acknowledge, confess)

confession he wrote plays, for he speaks of Catilines Conspiracies as a " See also:

• PIG
• PIG (a word of obscure origin, connected with the Low Ger. and Dut. word of the same meaning, bigge)

Pig of mine own Sowe." To this See also:

• PLAY

play and some others, on See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of their moral intention, he extends See also:

• INDULGENCE (Lat. indulgentia, indulgere, to grant, concede)

indulgence in the See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general condemnation of See also:

• STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to stand)

stage plays contained in his Schoole of Abuse, containing a pleasant invective against Poets, Pipers, Plaiers, Jesters and such like Caterpillars of the See also:

• COMMONWEALTH

Commonwealth (1579) . The euphuistic See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style of this pamphlet and its ostentatious display of learning were in the See also:

• TASTE (from Lat. taxare, to touch sharply; tangere, to touch)

taste of the See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time, and do not necessarily imply insincerity . See also:

• GOSSON, STEPHEN (1554-1624)

Gosson justified his attack by considerations of the disorder which the love of See also:

• MELODRAMA (a coined word from Gr. µEXos, music, and Spaµa, action)

melodrama and of vulgar See also:

• COMEDY

comedy was introducing into the social See also:

• LIFE

life of London . It was not only by extremists like Gosson that these abuses were recognized . Spenser, in his Teares of the See also:

• MUSES, THE (Gr. Mo6o-at, the thinkers)

Muses (1591), laments the same evils, although only in general terms . The See also:

• TRACT (from Lat. tractare, to treat of a matter, through Provencal tractat and Ital. trattato)

tract was dedicated to See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• PHILIP
• PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
• PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
• PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
• PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)

Philip Sidney, who seems not unnaturally to have resented being connected with a pamphlet which opened with a comprehensive denunciation of poets, for Spenser, See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing to See also:

• GABRIEL (Heb. SKns, man of God)

Gabriel See also:

• HARVEY
• HARVEY, GABRIEL (c. 1545-1630)
• HARVEY, SIR GEORGE (1806-1876)
• HARVEY, WILLIAM (1578—1657)

Harvey (Oct . 16, 1579) of the See also:

• DEDICATION (Lat. dedicatio, from dedicare, to proclaim, to announce)

dedication, says the author " was for hys labor scorned." He dedicated, however, a second tract, The Ephemerides of Phialo . . . and A See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

Short A pologie of the Schoole of Abuse, to Sidney on Oct . 28th, 1579 .

Gosson's abuse of poets seems to have had a large See also:

• SHARE (O. Eng. scearu, chiefly in compounds, e.g. land-scearu, a share of land, from sceran to cut; cf. " shear" )

share in inducing Sidney to write his Apologie for Poetrie, which probably See also:

• DATES

dates from 1581 . After the publication of the Schoole of Abuse Gosson retired into the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, where he acted as See also:

• TUTOR (Lat. tutor, guardian, tueri, to watch over, protect)

tutor to the sons of a See also:

• GENTLEMAN (from Lat. gentilis, " belonging to a race or gens," and " man "; Fr. gentilhomme, Span. gentil hombre, Ital. gentil huomo, in its original and strict signification, a term denoting a man of good family, the Lat. generosus (its invariable transl

gentleman (Plays Confuted . " To the Reader," 1582) . See also:

• ANTHONY, SAINT
• ANTHONY, SUSAN BROWNELL (1820-1906)

Anthony a See also:

• WOOD, ANTHONY A2 (1632-1695)
• WOOD, JOHN GEORGE (1827—1889)
• WOOD, MRS HENRY [ELLEN] (1814—1887)
• WOOD, SEARLES VALENTINE (1798—188o)

Wood places this earlier and assigns the termination of his tutorship indirectly to his animosity against the stage, which apparently wearied his See also:

• PATRON

patron of his See also:

• COMPANY

company . The publication of his polemic provoked many retorts, the most formidable of which was See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

Thomas See also:

• LODGE
• LODGE, EDMUND (1756-1839)
• LODGE, H
• LODGE, HENRY CABOT (1850– )
• LODGE, SIR OLIVER JOSEPH (1851– )
• LODGE, THOMAS (c. 1558–1625)

Lodge's See also:

• DEFENCE
• DEFENCE (Lat. defendere, to defend)

Defence of Playes (158o) . The players themselves retaliated by reviving Gosson's own plays . Gosson replied to his various opponents in 1582 by his Playes Confuted in Five Actions, dedicated to Sir Francis See also:

• WALSINGHAM, SIR FRANCIS (c. 1530-1590)
• WALSINGHAM, THOMAS (d. c. 1422)

Walsingham . Meanwhile he had taken orders, was made lecturer of the See also:

• PARISH (Gr. irapouda, district, neighbourhood; 7r&poucos, one dwelling near or beside, from crap&, OtKOS, house; Lat. paroecur, Late Lat. parochia; cf. Fr. paroisse)

parish See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church at See also:

• STEPNEY
• STEPNEY, GEORGE (1663-1707)

Stepney (1585), and was presented by the See also:

• QUEEN
• QUEEN (O.E. cwen, wife, related to "quean," O.E. cwene, a hussy; cf. Gr. yvvi7: from root gan-, to produce; cf. genus, " kin," &c.)

queen to the rectory of See also:

• GREAT

Great Wigborough, See also:

• ESSEX
• ESSEX, ARTHUR CAPEL
• ESSEX, EARLS OF
• ESSEX, KINGDOM OF
• ESSEX, ROBERT DEVEREUX
• ESSEX, ROBERT DEVEREUX, 2ND2 EARL OF (1566-1601)
• ESSEX, WALTER DEVEREUX, IST2 EARL OF (1541–1576)

Essex, which he exchanged in 1600 for St Botolph's, Bishopsgate . He died on the 13th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1624 . PleasantQuippes for Upstart Newfangled Gentlewomen (1595), a coarse satiric poem, is also ascribed to Gosson . The Schoole of Abuse and Apologie were edited (1868) by Prof . E .

See also:

• ARBER, EDWARD (1836– )

Arber in his English Reprints . Two poems of Gosson's are included .