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 John Marston Quotes
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 John Marston ( 1576 – 1634-06-25 ) was an English poet, playwright and satirist. In a short and stormy literary career two of his books were burned by order of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and he himself suffered imprisonment on account of a third.... 
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John Marston | | Birth Date: |
October 7, 1576 | | Death Date: |
June 25, 1634 | | Nationality: |
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 Biography of John Marston
15,951 words, approx. 53 pages
 Aside from his reputation as a playwright, John Marston has for the most part been recognized from his own time to the present as a satirist, a malcontent, and a generally cantankerous individual. His contemporaries thought of him as a good verse... summary from source:
Biography of John Marston
5,642 words, approx. 19 pages
John Marston's current reputation as one of the foremost poet-playwrights of the English Renaissance rests primarily on the strength of The Malcontent (1603-1604), the one masterpiece among his comedies that continues to be reprinted in anthologies of...
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 John Marston Information
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John Marston (baptised October 7, 1576 – June 25, 1634) was an English poet, playwright and satirist during the late Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. Although his career as a writer lasted only a decade, his work is remembered for its energetic and...
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 Comparative Drama Writing and revenge: John Marston's Histriomastix.(Critical Essay)
03/22/2002: 11,546 words, approx. 39 pages Lampatho: Ile be reveng'd. Quadratus: How pree-thee? In a play? --What You Will At the turn of the seventeenth century, John Marston and Ben Jonson satirized each other's poetics and personalities in a series of revenge comedies that Thomas Dekker called... summary from source:
The Modern Language Review The Drama of John Marston: Critical Re-Visions.(Book Review)
07/01/2003: 868 words, approx. 3 pages The Drama of John Marston: Critical Re-Visions. Ed by. T. F. WHARTON. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2001. xiii+233 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]; $59.95. ISBN 0-521-65136-0. While this book was in the press, a production at RADA, the first for...
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 Critical Essay by Anthony Caputi
8,683 words, approx. 29 pages
In the following excerpt, Caputi examines Marston's style in the various satires, focusing on his use of speeches, types, and exempla, and discussing how he further developed these techniques in his plays.
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Critical Essay by Kenneth J. E. Graham
7,996 words, approx. 27 pages
Here, Graham discusses Marston's handling of anger in The Scourge of Villanie, Antonio and Mellida, and Antonio's Revenge, arguing that "his work shows a plainness that questions all values, thus transforming anger from a reflection of some prior reality to pure self-expression."
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Critical Essay by Algernon Swinburne
7,810 words, approx. 26 pages
Here, Swinburne attempts to defend the merits of Marston's style from his detractors, asserting that, while the dramatist can be both inconsistent and coarse in his choice of language and subject matter, his writing is "striking and sincere" in its own, very individual way.
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