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John Marston was an English poet, playwright and satirist during the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods. 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. Wikipedia  

✵ 7. October 1576 – 25. June 1634
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Works

Antonio's Revenge
Antonio's Revenge
John Marston
The Malcontent
The Malcontent
John Marston
The Wonder of Women
John Marston
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Famous John Marston Quotes

“For see, the dapple-grey coursers of the morn
Beat up the light with their bright silver hoofs,
And chase it through the sky.”

John Marston Antonio's Revenge

Antonio's Revenge, Act I, sc. i.

“Who winks and shuts his apprehension up.”

John Marston Antonio's Revenge

Antonio's Revenge, Prologue, line 17. (1600)

“Sing of the nature of women, and then the song shall be surely full of variety; old crotchets and most sweet closes. It shall be humorous, grave, fantastic, amorous, melancholy, sprightly, one in all, and all in one.”

John Marston The Malcontent

The Malcontent, Act III, sc. iv. (1603-04)

“Marston is a writer of great merit, who rose to tragedy from the ground of comedy, and whose forte was not sympathy, either with the stronger or softer emotions, but an impatient scorn and bitter indignation against the vices and follies of men, which vented itself either in comic irony or in lofty invective. He was properly a satirist.”

John Marston

William Hazlitt Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth ([1820] 1845) Lecture 3, p. 57.
Criticism

“Foul canker of fair virtuous action,
Vile blaster of the freshest blooms on earth,
Envys abhorrèd child, Detraction,
I here expose, to thy all-tainting breath,
The issue of my brain: snarl, rail, bark, bite,
Know that my spirit scorns Detraction's spite.”

John Marston

"To Detraction I Present My Poesy", line 1, from The Scourge of Villainy (1598-99).

“Speak, speak, let terror strike slaves mute,
Much danger makes great hearts most resolute.”

John Marston The Wonder of Women

The Wonder of Women, or The Tragedy of Sophonisba, Act II, sc. ii. (1606)

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