Marston, Rivalry, Rapprochement, and Jonson (Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama) - Hardcover

Book 23 of 56: Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama

Cathcart, Charles

 
9780754656364: Marston, Rivalry, Rapprochement, and Jonson (Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0754656365 ISBN 13: 9780754656364
Publisher: Routledge, 2008

Synopsis

Significant and unexplored signs of John Marston's literary rivalry with Ben Jonson are investigated here by Charles Cathcart. The centrepiece of the book is its argument that the anonymous play The Family of Love, sometimes attributed to Thomas Middleton and sometimes to Lording Barry, was in part the work of John Marston, and that it constitutes a whimsical statement of amity with Jonson. The book concerns itself with material rarely or never viewed as part of the "Poets' War" (such as the mutual attempted cuckoldings of The Insatiate Countess and the Middle Temple performance of Twelfth Night) rather than with texts (like Satiromastix and Poetaster) long considered in this light.

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About the Author

Charles Cathcart is an independent scholar.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0754656365
ISBN 13 
9780754656364
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
198