Satiromastix, or The Untrussing of the Humorous Poet
Satiromastix, or The Untrussing of the Humorous Poet,a comedy by Dekker , written 1601 (with John Marston? ), printed 1602 .
Jonson in his Poetaster had satirized Dekker and Marston, under the names of Demetrius and Crispinus, while he himself figures as Horace. Dekker here retorts, bringing the same Horace, Crispinus, and Demetrius on the stage once more. Horace is discovered sitting in a study laboriously composing an epithalamium, and at a loss for a rhyme. Crispinus and Demetrius enter and reprove him gravely for his querulousness. Presently Captain Tucca (of the Poetaster) enters, and turns effectively on Horace the flow of his profanity. Horace's peculiarities of dress and appearance, his vanity and bitterness, are ridiculed; and he is finally untrussed and crowned with nettles.
The satirical part of the play uses a somewhat inappropriate romantic setting—the wedding of Sir Walter Terill...
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