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John Marston (baptised 7 October 1576 – 25 June 1634) 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 ...
Jun 22, 2024 · John Marston (baptized Oct. 7, 1576, Oxfordshire, Eng.—died June 25, 1634, London) was an English dramatist, one of the most vigorous satirists of the Shakespearean era, whose best known work is The Malcontent (1604), in which he rails at the iniquities of a lascivious court. He wrote it, as well as other major works, for a variety of ...
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John Marston 1576-1634. John Marston was one of the most interesting men among the Jacobean playwrights. He was not for the most part a writer in the mainstream of writing for the theatre and much of his work was done for children’s theatre companies. In particular, he wrote erotic plays for boy actors to be performed before educated young ...
John Marston (1576-1634) is one of the most fascinating and daring writers of the English literary Renaissance. Author or part-author of (at least) eleven plays, a large body of poetry, and several aristocratic entertainments, he is known for his satirical sharpness, linguistic inventiveness, and caustic yet also fantastical perspective on ...
John Marston was born in Oxfordshire in the year 1576. He was the son of a lawyer in the Middle High Temple. He went to Brasenose College, Oxford in 1592. He studied arts from the same college and was living in the Middle High Temple at the time. He always had a call for poetry and playwriting and spent a lot of his time reading during his ...
Biography. John Marston, born in Oxfordshire and baptized there on October 7, 1576, was the son of an English lawyer and his Italian wife. He attended Brasenose College, Oxford, from February 4 ...
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Quick Reference. (1576–1634) Poet and dramatist, whose mother was Italian. He graduated from Oxford in 1594, and joined his father, a lawyer, in the Middle Temple, where he maintained rooms until 1606. ... From: Marston, John in The Oxford Companion to English Literature ». Subjects: Literature.
