John Marston (baptised 7 October 1576 – 25 June 1634) was an English playwright, poet and satirist during the late
Elizabethan
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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 poetry, and its idiosyncratic vocabulary.
Life
Marston was born to John and Maria Marston ''née'' Guarsi, and baptised 7 October 1576, at
Wardington,
Oxfordshire. His father was an eminent lawyer of the
Middle Temple
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who first argued in
London
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and then became the counsel to
Coventry
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and ultimately its steward. John Marston entered
Brasenose College, Oxford
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, in 1592 and received his BA in 1594. By 1595, he was in London, living in the Middle Temple, where he had been admitted a member three years previously. He had an interest in poetry and play writing, although his father's will of 1599 expresses the hope that he would give up such vanities. He married Mary Wilkes in 1605, daughter of the Reverend William Wilkes, one of
King James's chaplain
A chaplain is, traditionally, a cleric (such as a minister, priest, pastor, rabbi, purohit, or imam), or a lay representative of a religious tradition, attached to a secular institution (such as a hospital, prison, military unit, intellige ...
s.
Early career
Marston's brief career in literature began with a foray into the then-fashionable genres of erotic
epyllion
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and
satire
Satire is a genre of the visual arts, visual, literature, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently Nonfiction, non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ...
. In 1598, he published ''The Metamorphosis of Pigmalion's Image and Certaine Satyres'', a book of poetry in imitation of, on the one hand,
Ovid
Pūblius Ovidius Nāsō (; 20 March 43 BC – 17/18 AD), known in English as Ovid ( ), was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a contemporary of the older Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the ...
, and, on the other, the
Satires of Juvenal
The ''Satires'' () are a collection of satirical poems by the Latin author Juvenal written between the end of the first and the early second centuries A.D.
Juvenal is credited with sixteen known poems divided among five books; all are in th ...
. He also published another book of satires, ''The Scourge of Villanie'', in 1598. (Marston issued these satires under the pseudonym "W. Kinsayder.") The satire in these books is even more savage and misanthropic than was typical for the decade's satirists. Marston's style is, moreover, in places contorted to the point of unintelligibility: he believed that satire should be rough and obscure, perhaps because he thought (as did many other writers of the time) that the term 'satire' was derived from the Greek '
satyr play
The satyr play is a form of Attic theatre performance related to both comedy and tragedy. It preserves theatrical elements of dialogue, actors speaking verse, a chorus that dances and sings, masks and costumes. Its relationship to tragedy is stron ...
s'. Marston seems to have been enraged by
Joseph Hall's claim to be the first satirist in English; Hall comes in for some indirect
flyting
Flyting or fliting is a contest consisting of the exchange of insults between two parties, often conducted in verse.
Etymology
The word ''flyting'' comes from the Old English verb meaning 'to quarrel', made into a noun with the suffix -''ing'' ...
in at least one of the satires. Some see
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's natio ...
's
Thersites
In Greek mythology, Thersites (; Ancient Greek: Θερσίτης) was a soldier of the Greek army during the Trojan War.
Family
The ''Iliad'' does not mention his father's name, which may suggest that he should be viewed as a commoner rathe ...
and
Iago, as well as the mad speeches of
King Lear
''King Lear'' is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare.
It is based on the mythological Leir of Britain. King Lear, in preparation for his old age, divides his power and land between two of his daughters. He becomes destitute and insane a ...
as influenced by ''The Scourge of Villanie''. Marston had, however, arrived on the literary scene as the fad for verse satire was to be checked by censors. The
Archbishop of Canterbury John Whitgift and the
Bishop of London
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In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or offic ...
Richard Bancroft banned the ''Scourge'' and had it publicly burned, along with copies of works by other satirists, on 4 June 1599.
Playwriting with Henslowe
In September 1599, John Marston began to work for
Philip Henslowe
Philip Henslowe (c. 1550 – 6 January 1616) was an Elizabethan theatrical entrepreneur and impresario. Henslowe's modern reputation rests on the survival of his diary, a primary source for information about the theatrical world of Renaissance ...
as a playwright. Following the work of O. J. Campbell, it has commonly been thought that Marston turned to the theatre in response to the
Bishops' Ban of 1599
On 1 June 1599, John Whitgift (the Archbishop of Canterbury) and Richard Bancroft (the Bishop of London) signed their names on an order to ban a selection of literary works. This act of censorship has become known among scholars as the "Bishops' ...
; more recent scholars have noted that the ban was not enforced with great rigor and might not have intimidated prospective satirists at all. At any rate, Marston proved a good match for the stage—not the public stage of Henslowe, but the "private" playhouses where
boy player
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s performed racy dramas for an audience of city gallants and young members of the
Inns of Court
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All barristers must belong to one of them. They have ...
. Traditionally, though without strong external attribution, ''Histriomastix'' has been regarded as his first play; performed by either the Children of Paul's or the students of the Middle Temple in around
1599
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January–June
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, it appears to have sparked the
War of the Theatres, the
literary feud between Marston, Jonson and Dekker that took place between around 1599 and 1602. In c. 1600, Marston wrote ''Jack Drum's Entertainment'' and ''Antonio and Mellida'', and in 1601 he wrote ''Antonio's Revenge'', a sequel to the latter play; all three were performed by the company at Paul's. In 1601, he contributed poems to
Robert Chester's ''Love's Martyr.'' For Henslowe, he may have collaborated with Dekker, Day, and Haughton on ''
Lust's Dominion''.
Feud with Jonson
By 1601, he was well known in London literary circles, particularly in his role as enemy to the equally pugnacious
Ben Jonson
Benjamin "Ben" Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 – c. 16 August 1637) was an English playwright and poet. Jonson's artistry exerted a lasting influence upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours; he is best known for ...
. Jonson, who reported to
Drummond that Marston had accused him of sexual profligacy, satirized Marston as Clove in ''
Every Man Out of His Humour
''Every Man out of His Humour'' is a satirical comedy written by English playwright Ben Jonson, acted in 1599 by the Lord Chamberlain's Men.
The play
The play is a conceptual sequel to his 1598 comedy '' Every Man in His Humour''. It was much ...
'', as Crispinus in ''Poetaster'', and as Hedon in ''Cynthia's Revels''. Jonson criticised Marston for being a false poet, a vain, careless writer who plagiarised the works of others and whose own works were marked by bizarre diction and ugly neologisms. For his part, Marston may have satirized Jonson as the complacent, arrogant critic Brabant Senior in ''Jack Drum's Entertainment'' and as the envious, misanthropic playwright and satirist Lampatho Doria in ''
What You Will
''What You Will'' is a late Elizabethan comedy by John Marston, written in 1601 and probably performed by the Children of Paul's, one of the companies of boy actors popular in that period.
The play was entered into the Stationers' Register o ...
''.
''
The Return from Parnassus (II)'', a satirical play performed at
St. John's College, Cambridge in 1601 and 1602, characterised Marston as a poet whose writings see him "pissing against the world".
If Jonson can be trusted, the animosity between himself and Marston went beyond the literary. He claimed to have beaten Marston and taken his pistol. However, the two playwrights were reconciled soon after the so-called War; Marston wrote a prefatory poem for Jonson's ''Sejanus'' in 1605 and dedicated ''The Malcontent'' to Jonson. Yet in
1607, he criticized Jonson for being too pedantic to make allowances for his audience or the needs of aesthetics.
Blackfriars
Outside of these tensions, Marston's career continued to prosper. In 1603, he became a shareholder in the Children of Blackfriars company, at that time known for steadily pushing the allowable limits of personal satire, violence, and lewdness on stage. He wrote and produced two plays with the company. The first was ''The Malcontent'' in 1603; this satiric tragicomedy is Marston's most famous play. This work was originally written for the children at Blackfriars, and was later taken over (perhaps stolen) by the Kings' Men at the Globe, with additions by John Webster and (perhaps) Marston himself.
Marston's second play for the Blackfriars children was ''The Dutch Courtesan'', a satire on lust and hypocrisy, in 1604–5. In 1605, he worked with
George Chapman
George Chapman (Hitchin, Hertfordshire, – London, 12 May 1634) was an English dramatist, translator and poet. He was a classical scholar whose work shows the influence of Stoicism. Chapman has been speculated to be the Rival Poet of Sh ...
and Ben Jonson on ''
Eastward Ho
''Eastward Hoe'' or ''Eastward Ho!'' is an early Jacobean-era stage play written by George Chapman, Ben Jonson and John Marston. The play was first performed at the Blackfriars Theatre by a company of boy actors known as the Children of the ...
'', a satire of popular taste and the vain imaginings of wealth to be found in
Virginia
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. Chapman and Jonson were arrested for, according to Jonson, a few clauses that offended the Scots, but Marston escaped any imprisonment. The actual cause of arrest and details of the brief detainment are not certainly known; in the event, charges were dropped.
In 1606, Marston seems to have offended and then soothed King James. First, in ''Parasitaster, or, The Fawn,'' he satirized the king specifically. However, in the summer of that year, he put on a production of ''The Dutch Courtesan'' for the King of
Denmark
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's visit, with a
Latin
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verse on King James that was presented by hand to the king. Finally, in 1607, he wrote ''
The Entertainment at Ashby'', a
masque
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for the
Earl of Huntingdon
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The seventh and most recent creation dates ...
. At that point, he stopped his dramatic career altogether, selling his shares in the company of Blackfriars. His departure from the literary scene may have been because of another play, now lost, which offended the king. It seems that the French ambassador complained to King James about the disrespectful treatment of the French court in plays by Chapman performed at Blackfriars. To strengthen his case he added that another play had been performed in which James himself was depicted drunk. Incensed, James suspended performances at Blackfriars and had Marston imprisoned. This suggests that he was the author of the offending play.
Later life
After the end of his literary career, he moved into his father-in-law's house and began studying
philosophy. In 1609, he became a reader at the
Bodleian Library
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at
Oxford
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, was made a
deacon
A deacon is a member of the diaconate, an office in Christian churches that is generally associated with service of some kind, but which varies among theological and denominational traditions. Major Christian churches, such as the Catholic Chur ...
on 24 September and a
priest
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on 24 December 1609. Contemporary authors were bemused or surprised by Marston's change of career, with several of them commenting on its seeming abruptness. In October 1616, Marston was assigned the living of
Christchurch, Hampshire. He died on 24 June 1634, aged 57, in London and was buried in the
Middle Temple Church.
Tombs at that time often started with the formulaic "''Memoriae Sacrum''" ("Sacred to the memory") followed by the name of the tomb's occupant and an account of their achievements even though such words are
hubris
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tic and a contradiction to the Christian virtues of modesty. According to
Anthony à Wood John Marston's tomb stone bore the legend "''Oblivioni Sacrum''" ("Sacred to Oblivion"), which was probably composed by Marston, and, according to Joshua Scodel, the short "epitaph is thus both self-abasing and witty in its novel inversion of tradition".
Reception and criticism
Marston's reputation has varied widely, like that of most of the minor Renaissance dramatists. Both ''The Malcontent'' and ''The Dutch Courtesan'' remained on stage in altered forms through the
Restoration. The subplot of the latter was converted to a
droll
A droll is a short comical sketch of a type that originated during the Puritan Interregnum in England. With the closure of the theatres, actors were left without any way of plying their art. Borrowing scenes from well-known plays of the Elizab ...
during the
Commonwealth
A commonwealth is a traditional English term for a political community founded for the common good. Historically, it has been synonymous with " republic". The noun "commonwealth", meaning "public welfare, general good or advantage", dates from th ...
; after the Stuart Restoration, either
Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn (; bapt. 14 December 1640 – 16 April 1689) was an English playwright, poet, prose writer and translator from the Restoration era. As one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing, she broke cultural barrie ...
or
Thomas Betterton updated the main plot for ''The Revenge, or The Match in Newgate'', although this adaptation makes the play both more sentimental and less morally complex.
Gerard Langbaine
Gerard Langbaine (15 July 1656 – 23 June 1692) was an English dramatic biographer and critic, best known for his ''An Account of the English Dramatic Poets'' (1691), the earliest work to give biographical and critical information on the playwrig ...
makes a laudatory but superficial comment about Marston in his survey of English dramatic poets.
After the Restoration, Marston's works were largely reduced to the status of a curiosity of literary history. The general resemblance of ''Antonio's Revenge'' to ''
Hamlet
''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play, with 29,551 words. Set in Denmark, the play depi ...
'' and Marston's role in the war of the poets ensured that his plays would receive some scholarly attention, but they were not performed and were not even widely read.
Thomas Warton
Thomas Warton (9 January 172821 May 1790) was an English literary historian, critic, and poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1785, following the death of William Whitehead.
He is sometimes called ''Thomas Warton the younger'' to dis ...
preferred Marston's satires to Bishop Hall's; in the next century, however,
Henry Hallam
Henry Hallam (9 July 1777 – 21 January 1859) was an English historian. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, he practised as a barrister on the Oxford circuit for some years before turning to history. His major works were ''View of ...
reversed this judgment.
William Gifford, perhaps the eighteenth century's most devoted reader of Jonson, called Marston "the most scurrilous, filthy and obscene writer of his time".
The
Romantic
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movement in English literature resuscitated Marston's reputation, albeit unevenly. In his lectures,
William Hazlitt
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praised Marston's genius for satire; however, if the romantic critics and their successors were willing to grant Marston's best work a place among the great accomplishments of the period, they remained aware of his inconsistency, what
Swinburne
Algernon Charles Swinburne (5 April 1837 – 10 April 1909) was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He wrote several novels and collections of poetry such as '' Poems and Ballads'', and contributed to the famous Eleventh Edition ...
in a later generation called his "uneven and irregular demesne".
In the twentieth century, however, a few critics were willing to consider Marston as a writer who was very much in control of the world he creates.
T. S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 18884 January 1965) was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor.Bush, Ronald. "T. S. Eliot's Life and Career", in John A Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (eds), ''American National Biogr ...
saw that this "irregular demesne" was a part of Marston's world and declared that "It is … by giving us the sense of something behind, more real than any of the personages and their action, that Marston establishes himself among the writers of genius". Marston's tragic style is Senecan and although his characters may appear, on Eliot's own admission, "lifeless", they are instead used as types to convey their "theoretical implications". Eliot in particular admired ''Sophonisba'' and saw how Marston's plays, with their apparently stylised characters and bitter portrayal of a world where virtue and honour only arouse "dangerous envy" (''Sophonisba''; Act 1, scene 1, line 45) in those around them, actually bring to life "a pattern behind the pattern into which the characters deliberately involve themselves: the kind of pattern which we perceive in our own lives only at rare moments of inattention and detachment".
[T.S. Eliot, Selected Essays, London: Faber, 1932, reprinted and enlarged, 1934, repr. 1999), p. 232]
Works
Plays and production dates
* ''
Histriomastix (play)'', 1599
* ''
Antonio and Mellida'', London, Paul's theatre, 1599–1600.
* ''
Jack Drum's Entertainment'', London, Paul's theatre, 1599/1600.
* ''
Antonio's Revenge'', London, Paul's theatre, 1600.
* ''
What You Will
''What You Will'' is a late Elizabethan comedy by John Marston, written in 1601 and probably performed by the Children of Paul's, one of the companies of boy actors popular in that period.
The play was entered into the Stationers' Register o ...
'', London, Paul's theatre, 1601.
* ''
The Malcontent'', London,
Blackfriars Theatre
Blackfriars Theatre was the name given to two separate theatres located in the former Blackfriars Dominican priory in the City of London during the Renaissance. The first theatre began as a venue for the Children of the Chapel Royal, child ac ...
, 1603–1604; Globe Theatre, 1604.
* ''
Parasitaster, or The Fawn'', London, Blackfriars theatre, 1604.
* ''
Eastward Ho
''Eastward Hoe'' or ''Eastward Ho!'' is an early Jacobean-era stage play written by George Chapman, Ben Jonson and John Marston. The play was first performed at the Blackfriars Theatre by a company of boy actors known as the Children of the ...
'', by Marston,
George Chapman
George Chapman (Hitchin, Hertfordshire, – London, 12 May 1634) was an English dramatist, translator and poet. He was a classical scholar whose work shows the influence of Stoicism. Chapman has been speculated to be the Rival Poet of Sh ...
, and
Ben Jonson
Benjamin "Ben" Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 – c. 16 August 1637) was an English playwright and poet. Jonson's artistry exerted a lasting influence upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours; he is best known for ...
, London, Blackfriars theatre, 1604–1605.
* ''
The Dutch Courtesan'', London, Blackfriars theatre, 1605.
* ''
The Wonder of Women, or The Tragedy of
Sophonisba'', London, Blackfriars theatre, 1606.
* ''The Spectacle Presented to the Sacred Majesties of Great Britain, and Denmark as They Passed through London'', London, 31 July 1606.
* ''
The Entertainment of the Dowager-Countess of Darby'',
Ashby-de-la-Zouch
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in
Leicestershire, 1607.
* ''
The Insatiate Countess'', by Marston and
William Barksted, London,
Whitefriars Theatre, 1608?.
Books
* ''The Metamorphosis of Pigmalions Image''. And Certaine Satyres (London: Printed by J. Roberts for E. Matts, 1598).
* ''The Scourge of Villanie. Three Bookes of Satyres'' (London: Printed by J. Roberts & sold by J. Buzbie, 1598; revised and enlarged edition, London: J. Roberts, 1599).
* ''Jacke Drums Entertainment: Or, The Comedie of Pasquill and Katherine'' (London: Printed by
T. Creede for R. Olive, 1601).
* ''Loves Martyr: or, Rosalins Complaint'', by Marston,
Ben Jonson
Benjamin "Ben" Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 – c. 16 August 1637) was an English playwright and poet. Jonson's artistry exerted a lasting influence upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours; he is best known for ...
,
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's natio ...
, and
George Chapman
George Chapman (Hitchin, Hertfordshire, – London, 12 May 1634) was an English dramatist, translator and poet. He was a classical scholar whose work shows the influence of Stoicism. Chapman has been speculated to be the Rival Poet of Sh ...
(London: Printed for E. B., 1601).
* ''The History of Antonio and Mellida'' (London: Printed by R. Bradock for M. Lownes & T. Fisher, 1602).
* ''Antonios Revenge'' (London: Printed by R. Bradock for T. Fisher, 1602).
* ''The Malcontent'' (London: Printed by
V. Simmes for
W. Aspley, 1604).
* ''Eastward Hoe'', by Marston, Chapman, and Jonson (London: Printed by
G. Eld for W. Aspley, 1605).
* ''The Dutch Courtezan'' (London: Printed by T. Purfoote for J. Hodgets, 1605).
* ''Parasitaster, or The Fawne'' (London: Printed by T. Purfoote for W. Cotton, 1606).
* ''The Wonder of Women, or The Tragedie of Sophonisba'' (London: Printed by J. Windet, 1606).
* ''What You Will'' (London: Printed by G. Eld for T. Thorppe, 1607).
* ''Histrio-mastix: Or, The Player Whipt'' (London: Printed by G. Eld for
T. Thorp, 1610).
* ''The Insatiate Countesse'', by Marston and
William Barksted (London: Printed by
T. Snodham for T. Archer, 1613).
* ''The Workes of Mr. J. Marston'' (London: Printed by A. Mathewes for W. Sheares, 1633); republished as ''Tragedies and Comedies'' (London: Printed by A. Mathewes for W. Sheares, 1633).
* ''Comedies, Tragi-comedies; & Tragedies'',
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* ...
(London, 1652).
* ''Lust's Dominion, or The Lascivious Queen'' (presumably the same play as
The Spanish Moor's Tragedy), by Marston,
Thomas Dekker,
John Day, and
William Haughton (London: Printed for F. K. & sold by Robert Pollard, 1657).
Notes
References
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External links
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The Works of John Marston, vol. 1.' A. H. Bullen, ed. at Google Books
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The Works of John Marston, vol. 2.'
*
The Works of John Marston, vol. 3.'
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