Countercuff

In Poetaster, or The Arraignment (printed 1602) Jonson gave a countercuff to his antagonists by ridiculing Marston as Crispinus and Dekker as Demetrius, and presenting himself as Horace.

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Gosson's plea that Poetry makes men effeminate directly inspires Sidney's memorable countercuff that it, above all things, is the companion of camps⁶.

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As a countercuff to visual media, he lays down the ‘general principle’ that arts which leave the imagination something to do excel those that minister to passive consumers.

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That could be Jonson's countercuff to Polixenes' speech ('The art itself is nature'), and to Mrs Taleporter's true ballads.

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