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The Malcontent

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contribution to English literature

In English literature: Other Jacobean dramatists
His tragicomedy The Malcontent (1604) is remarkable for its wild language and sexual and political disgust; Marston cuts the audience adrift from the moorings of reason by a dizzying interplay of parody and seriousness. Only in the city comedies of Thomas Middleton was Jonson’s moral concern with…
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discussed in biography

In John Marston
…whose best known work is The Malcontent (1604), in which he rails at the iniquities of a lascivious court. He wrote it, as well as other major works, for a variety of children’s companies, organized groups of boy actors popular during Elizabethan and Jacobean times.
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