John Marston of the Middle Temple: An Elizabethan Dramatist in His Social Setting

✍ Scribed by Philip J. Finkelpearl

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Year: 1969
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 288
• Edition: Reprint 2014
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents
One. The Milieu of the Inns of Court
I. The Inns of Court in the Late Sixteenth Century
II. Literary Life at the Inns of Court in the Latter Half of the Sixteenth Century
III. Revels Inns of at the Court
IV. The Middle Temple’s “Prince D’Amour” Revels of 1597–98
V. The Political Climate at the Inns of Court (1590–1615)
VI. “The Noblest Nourceries of Humanity and Liberty”
Two. Playwright at the Inns of Court: John Marston
VII. John Marston’s Early Writing
VIII. Jack Drum’s Entertainment: Speech and Style at Highgate
IX. The Antonio Plays: “What Men Must Be”
X. What You Will or Don Kynsayder’s Descent from Parnassus
XI. The Malcontent: Virtuous Machiavellianism
XII. The Dutch Curtezan: “Rich Sence” and “Bad Language”
XIII. Parasitaster or The Fawne: King James and the Prince D’Amour
XIV. Sophonisba: Wonder and Shame
XV. Conclusion: A “Timely Change”
Appendix A. Some Important Figures at the Inns of Court (1590–1610)
Appendix B. Chronological Table of Events in Marston’s Life and Related Events at the Middle Temple
Appendix C. The Date of the Antonio Plays and Their Chronological Relationship to Hamlet
Index