jan 1, 1579 - ‘Schools of Abuse, containing a pleasant invective against Poets, Pipers, Plaiers, Jesters and such like Caterpillars of the Commonwealth’ by Stephen Gosson

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- Gosson was an English satirist
- said to have been an actor at some point, then took holy orders and became hostile to the stage
- this was a general condemnation of plays

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