John Weever
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John Weever was an English antiquary and poet. He is best known for his Epigrammes in the Oldest Cut, and Newest Fashion, containing epigrams on Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and other poets of his day, an
John Weever in 1631
Bishops' Ban of 1599
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On 1 June 1599, Archbishop of Canterbury John Whitgift and Bishop of London Richard Bancroft ordered a ban on a selection of literary works. The works were brought to Stationer’s Hall to be burned. Th
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…and translations of satires by classical authors. It concludes with references to contemporary satirists Joseph Hall and John Marston, and also to the Bishops' Ban of 1599, which ordered the calling in and destruction of satirical works by Thomas Nashe and others. In 1601 an anonymous pamphlet called The Whippinge of the…
Stationer’s Hall, off Paternoster Row, London, where the banned works were burned. (18th-century engraving by Benjamin Cole)