abrose

Updated: August 29, 2026

Poet, actor, and satirist, b. in Kent, and ed. at Oxf., he went to London, and wrote plays, which are now lost, and pastorals; but, moved by a sermon preached at Paul's Cross in 1577 during a plague, he deserted the theatre, and became one of its severest critics in his prose satire, The School of Abrose , directed against "poets, pipers, players, jesters, and such-like Caterpillars of a Commonwealth."

John W. (John William) Cousin - A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature