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John Marston est un poète et un dramaturge anglais de la période élisabéthaine et jacobéenne. Bien que sa carrière d'écrivain ne durât qu'une décennie, son œuvre est restée à cause de son style énergique souvent obscur, de sa contribution au développement d'un style poétique jacobéen distinctif et de son vocabulaire inventif, mêlant néologismes et « parler fustien ». Ancien élève de Middle Temple et de Brasenose College , il finit sa vie comme prêtre anglican. Wikipedia

✵ 7. octobre 1576 – 25. juin 1634

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John Marston: Citations en anglais

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

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John Marston Antonio's Revenge

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

“Who winks and shuts his apprehension up.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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"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.”

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John Marston The Wonder of Women

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