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personate
(of the corollas of certain flowers) having two lips in the form of a face


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High and low participated in these comic personations.
"I care not, let naturals love nations": cosmopolitan clowning by Brown, Pamela Allen / Shakespeare Studies
Thus while Steggle reiterates that Jonson fashions his argument about the privileged nature of classically inspired satiric comedy and presents personations of Marston and Dekker as bad writers living their lives as bad plays, "seedy poet-playwrights, immoral and what's worse, inept" (35), his argument becomes compelling in his reading of the "elegant and cogent" arguments Jonson's opponents offer in What You Will and Satiromastix.
Operating Theater by COLLIER, SUSANNE / Renaissance Quarterly
Poetaster, instead of relying for its effectiveness on the kind of libels and comic personations of Marston and Dekker's plays, offers a picture of what Jonson views as the proper shape of a specifically literary hierarchy.
"Honesty and vulgar praise": the Poet's War and the literary field by Gieskes, Edward / Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
 
 
 
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