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John Marston

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English writer 1575?-1634

United KingdomWritersLived 1576 to 1634 · aged 57
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John Marston was an English playwright, poet and satirist during the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods. His career as a writer lasted only a decade.

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Title page of 1604 printing of The Malcontent, Marston’s most well-known playTitle page of 1604 printing of The Malcontent, Marston’s most well-known playTitle page of 1598 printing of Marston’s The Metamorphosis of Pigmalions ImageTitle page of 1598 printing of Marston’s The Metamorphosis of Pigmalions ImageBen Jonson: rival, co-author, frenemyBen Jonson: rival, co-author, frenemyGeorge Chapman: co-author (with Marston and Jonson) of Eastward Ho!George Chapman: co-author (with Marston and Jonson) of Eastward Ho!

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John Marston was an English playwright, poet and satirist during the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods. His career as a writer lasted only a decade. 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.

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United Kingdom
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Writers
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deceased
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Lived 1576 to 1634 · aged 57
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