Peter Hausted

Peter Hausted (c. 1605 – 20 July 1644), Doctor of Divinity, was an English playwright, poet, and preacher. In his own time, he was notorious as a flamboyant preacher against Puritan and sectarian dissent in the Church of England. He was remembered for the riot that accompanied the 1632 debut of his play The Rival Friends.

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