Download or read book Marston, Rivalry, Rapprochement, and Jonson written by Charles Cathcart and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigated in this study are significant and unexplored signs of John Marston's literary rivalry with Ben Jonson. The centrepiece of the book is its argument that the anonymous play The Family of Love, sometimes attributed to Thomas Middleton and sometimes to Lording Barry, was in part the work of John Marston, and that it constitutes a whimsical statement of amity with Jonson.