John Marston was an English playwright, poet and satirist during the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods. His career as a writer lasted only a decade. His work is remembered for its energetic
Title page of 1604 printing of The Malcontent, Marston’s most well-known play
Title page of 1598 printing of Marston’s The Metamorphosis of Pigmalions Image
Ben Jonson: rival, co-author, frenemy
George Chapman: co-author (with Marston and Jonson) of Eastward Ho!