John Marston (1576 – 1634) was an English poet, playwright and satirist during the late Elizabethan and 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. His 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 children’s companies, organized groups of boy actors popular during Elizabethan and Jacobean times.
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The editor of this work, Arthur Henry Bullen (1857 - 1920), was an English editor and publisher, a specialist in 16th and 17th century literature, and founder of the Shakespeare Head Press, which for its first decades was a publisher of fine editions in the tradition of the Kelmscott Press.
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Two hundred copies of this edition on laid paper ... 120 for the English market, and 80 for America.
v. 1. First part of Antonio and Mellida. Antonio's revenge : the second part of Antonio and Mellida. The malcontent -- v. 2. The Dutch courtezan. The fawn. The wonder of women, or, The tragedy of Sophonisba. What you will. -- v. 3. Eastward ho. The insatiate countess. The metamorphosis of Pygmalion's image, and certain satires. The scourge of villainy. Entertainment of Alice, dowager-countess of Derby. City pageant. Verses from Chester's Love's martyr. The mountebank's masque. Commendatory verses prefixed to Ben Jonson's sejanus
