John Marston (poet) facts for kids
John Marston (baptised 7 October 1576 – 25 June 1634) was an English poet, playwright 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 and often obscure style, its contributions to the development of a distinctively Jacobean style in poetry, and its idiosyncratic vocabulary.
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Ben Jonson: rival, co-author, frenemy
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George Chapman: co-author (with Marston and Jonson) of Eastward Ho!
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