The Poetaster

Excerpt from Poetaster: And Satiromastix Another period of Dekker's career might be marked ofl' from 1602 to 1613. In this latter year he fell once more into the hands of the law, and was confined till 1616 in the King's Bench Prison. Verses written that year from the King's Bench and an undated letter addressed to Edward Alleyn points him out as the friend in need. Within these eleven years Dekker wrote alone the follow ing plays and pamphlets: The W onderfull Teare 1603, wherein is shewed the picture of London lying sick of the Plague, 1603; The Honest Whore, 1604. Magnificent Entertainment given to King james, 1604; The Seven Deadly Sinnes of London, 1606; Newes from Hell, Brought by the Diuell's Carrier, 1606, te printed in 1607, with additions, as A Knight's Conjuring, Done in Earnest, Discovered in yest; The Double P. P., a Papist in Arms, Bearing Ten several Shields, etc., 1606; The Whore of Babylon, (pl.) 1607 (4to) The Dead T carme, 1608 (4to) The Belman of Lon don, 1608 (4to); Lanthorne and Candlelight, 1608 (4to), which was frequently republished with changes; The Ra'ven's Almanache For Telling of a Plague, Famine or Ci'vill Warre, 1609 (4to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.