Marston, John, 1575?-1634

LC control no.	n 79138755
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LC classification	PR2690 PR2698
Personal name heading	Marston, John, 1575?-1634 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Found in	The Dutch courtesan, 2017: ECIP t.p. (John Marston) data view (b. ca. 1575-1634; was an English playwright who wrote thirteen plays between 1599 and 1609, his two finest being the tragicomedy The Malcontent (1604) and the comedy The Dutch Courtesan (1605); he is noted for his violent imagery and his preoccupation with mankind's failure to uphold Christian virtues. Other plays include the tragedies Antonio's Revenge and Antonio and Mellida (both 1599) and the comedy What You Will (1601). At the turn of the century Marston became involved in the so-called war of the theatres, a prolonged feud with his rival Ben Jonson; Jonson repeatedly satirized him in such plays as Every Man Out of His Humour (1599) and The Poetaster (1601), while Marston replied in Satiromastix (with Thomas Dekker; 1601); their squabble ended in time for the two to collaborate with George Chapman on the ill-fated Eastward Ho! (1605), which resulted in all three authors being briefly imprisoned; he was later imprisoned for offending James I with his tragedy The Insatiate Countess (1610); after his release he took holy orders and wrote no more plays) Wikipedia, 06-22-2017: (John Marston; baptised 7 October 1576; d. 25 June 1634; was an English poet, playwright and satirist during the late Elizabethan and Jacobean periods; grad. of Oxford Univ.; his career as a writer lasted a decade, and his work is remembered for its energetic and often obscure style, its contributions to the development of a distinctively Jacobean style in poetry, and its idiosyncratic vocabulary)