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Smectymnuus

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Smectymnuus

Pseudonym (formed from the first letters of their names) of the British clerics Stephen Marshall, Edmond Calamy, Thomas Young, Matthew Newcomen, and William Spurstow. Presbyterians, they were joint authors of an attack 1641 on episcopacy and the bishop of Norwich, Joseph Hall (1574–1656), which was answered by Hall and defended by the poet John Milton.



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Milton seems to have seen the play when he was at Cambridge, since he refers in An Apology for Smectymnuus as regretting having seen clowns such as "Trinculo's, Buffons, and Bawds; prostituting the shame of that minestery, which either they had, or were
Professional playing in London and Superior Cambridge responses by Gurr, Andrew / Shakespeare Studies
1670), and the peculiar Smectymnuus (1641), which appears in the
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His son published Smectymnuus-Mastix, or Short Animadiversions upon Smectymnuus (1651); Hamon L'Estrange, The Reign of
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