John Marston

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John Marston was an English Renaissance dramatist and satirist best known for his darkly comic plays and involvement in the theatrical rivalries of the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods.

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instanceOf English dramatist
Renaissance writer
person
satirist
activeInPeriod early Jacobean era
late Elizabethan era
collaboratedWith Ben Jonson
George Chapman
Thomas Dekker
countryOfCitizenship England
educatedAt Brasenose College, Oxford NERFINISHED
familyName Marston
genre comedy
satire
tragedy
givenName John
influencedBy Horace
Juvenal
contemporary London theatre
languageOfWorkOrName English
movement English Renaissance drama
surface form: Elizabethan drama

English Renaissance drama
surface form: English Renaissance theatre

Jacobean drama
nationality English
notableFor darkly comic plays
satirical writing
theatrical rivalries
notableWork Antonio and Mellida
The Spanish Tragedy
surface form: Antonio's Revenge

Histriomastix
Parasitaster, or The Fawn
The Dutch Courtesan
The Insatiate Countess
The Malcontent
What You Will
occupation playwright
poet
satirist
participantIn War of the Theatres
religion Church of England
styleCharacteristic abrasive satire
dense, contorted language
misanthropic tone
wroteFor Blackfriars Theatre
Children of the Queen's Revels
wroteGenre city comedy
tragicomedy

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