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The Works of John Marston. Volume 3

Chapter 46: Transcriber’s Note:
By John Marston
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An edition assembling a range of dramatic and poetic pieces by a Jacobean writer, presenting stage plays, masques, satirical essays, lyric poems, and a civic pageant. The dramas combine brisk city comedy with moral satire, using energetic rhetoric and vivid comic situations to expose vice, ambition, and gullibility. Shorter poems and entertainments experiment with theatrical conceits and lyric variation, while masques and pageantry emphasize ceremonial spectacle and allegory. Together the pieces showcase a theatrical voice that alternates between barbed social critique and performative flourish.

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Transcriber’s Note:

Punctuation was standardized. Variations in spelling were retained, e.g. shipwreck’d, shipwracked, shipwrecked, and Abigail, Abigall, Abigal. Obsolete words, variant spellings, and dialect were not changed.

In the Table of Contents, links were added to the beginning of each act of the plays for the convenience of users.

Line numbers in prose sections may not be accurate if the user's browser is not the same width as the original book.

The index applies to all three volumes of Marston’s works. Links were added only to this volume.

Words formatted as gesperrt in the original appear as bold face in e-book readers.

Transliterations of Greek are indicated by dotted lines under the text. In screen view, scroll the mouse over the words and the transliteration will appear. This feature may not function in some e-book readers.

Footnotes were renumbered sequentially and moved to follow the scene or section in which the related anchor appears. There are multiple anchors for Footnotes [24], [193], [250], [260], [261], [292], and [297]. Each of these footnotes is linked to its first respective anchor.

The following changes were made:

  • Eastward Ho:
    • Footnote [25], ‘otes’ to ‘notes’
    • Act III, Scene II, stage direction after line 25, ‘Enetr’ to ‘Enter’
    • Added anchor for Footnote [167], missing in the original.
  • Insatiate Countess:
    • Act II, Scene 1, added anchor for Footnote [214], missing in the original.
    • Act III, Scene 4, missing word ‘I’ added to beginning of line 166.
  • Montebank’s Masque:
    • 2 Song, Stanza 3, line 6, ‘Bee’t’ to ‘Be ’t’
    • Familiar Receipts, For Barrenness, ‘mik’ to ‘milk’
    • Footnote [509], removed ‘of’ from ‘Huc usque of Xylinum’