Philip Stubbs (Stubbes) (c. 1555 – c. 1610) was an Englishpamphleteer.

Stubbs was born about 1555. He was fromCheshire, possibly the area nearCongleton. According toAnthony Wood, he was educated atCambridge and subsequently atOxford,^[1] but did not take a degree and his name is not in university records. He is reputed to have been a brother or near relation ofJohn Stubbs. He marriedKatherine Emmes (1570/71–1590) in 1586.

His first work was abroadside of 1581, and London literati came to see him as one of a group of ballad writers including alsoWilliam Elderton andThomas Deloney.^[2] In 1583 he published his best-known work,The Anatomie of Abuses. It consisted of a virulent attack on the manners, customs, amusements and fashions of the period including thetheatre,sexual reproduction,gambling,alcohol andfashion. It is still read for its full information on the cultural attitudes of the time.

In 1591 Stubbs publishedA Christal Glass for Christian Women, for his wife who had died at age 19, of which at least seven editions were called for; it is an example of thears moriendi in the Protestant tradition.^[2] He followed this book with other semi-devotional works. He died in about 1610, aged around 55.

• 1581,Two Wunderfull and Rare Examples
• 1582,A View of Vanitie, and Allarum to England, or, Retrait from Sinne (now lost)
• 1583,The Anatomie of Abuses
• 1583, The Display of Corruptions (part 2 ofThe Anatomie of Abuses)
• 1583,The Rosarie of Christian Praiers and Meditations (now lost)
• 1585,The Intended Treason of Doctor Parrie
• 1585,The Theater of the Popes Monarchie
• 1591,A Christal Glasse for Christian Women—biography of his wife,Katherine Stubbes (née Emmes)
• 1592,A Perfect Pathway to Felicitie
• 1593,Motive to Good Workes

• Alexandra Walsham, "Stubbes, Philip (b. c.1555, d. in or after 1610),"Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.Online version—access limited.
•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Stubbs, Philip".Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 1048.

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