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John Marston

English writer 1575?-1634 · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Lived 1576 to 1634 · aged 57

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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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