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Ben Jonson, John Marston and Early Modern Drama - Satire and the Audience (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Ben Jonson, John Marston and Early Modern Drama - Satire and the Audience (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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This book examines the influence of John Marston, typically seen as
a minor figure among early modern dramatists, on his colleague Ben
Jonson. While Marston is usually famed more for his very public
rivalry with Jonson than for the quality of his plays, this book
argues that such a view of Marston seriously underestimates his
importance to the theatre of his time. In it, the author contends
that Marston's plays represent an experiment in a new kind of
satiric drama, with origins in the humanist tradition of serio
ludere. His works-deliberately unpredictable, inconsistent and
metatheatrical-subvert theatrical conventions and provide
confusingly multiple perspectives on the action, forcing their
spectators to engage actively with the drama and the moral dilemmas
that it presents. The book argues that Marston's work thus
anticipates and perhaps influenced the mid-period work of Ben
Jonson, in plays such as Sejanus, Volpone and The Alchemist.
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