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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

John Marston (1575?–1634)

Marston, John. An English dramatist and poet; born about 1575; died in London, June 25, 1634. He graduated at Oxford in 1594, and became lecturer at the Middle Temple, London, 1593. His chief work was ‘The Malcontent’ (1604). The comedy ‘Eastward Ho!’ (1605), written with Ben Jonson and George Chapman, caused the imprisonment of all three on account of its satire on the Scotch.