The Malcontent

Author(s): Marston, John
Note: Two substantive textual versions: one based on the first quarto (1604) and on the additions and minor changes in the second quarto (1604); another substantive version based on the third quarto (1604), with «additions» written by John Webster. Date of first performance from Wiggins, vol. 5, p. 16.
Date of composition:
  • 1603 (best guess, Wiggins, vol. 5, p. 16)
  • 1602 -1604 (Wiggins, vol. 5, p. 16)
Date of first performance: 1602 approx.
Date of first publication: 1604
Genre (Annals): Tragicomedy
Genre: satire [source of genre: 1604 quarto epistle]

Catalogue references: Wiggins: 1391 (Vol. 5)
HIERONIMO/EMOTHE text(s): 1965 modern edition by M. L. Wine (Regents Renaissance Drama).
  • 1604 quarto Simmes, Valentine Aspley, William single-play print
  • 1604 quarto Simmes, Valentine Aspley, William single-play print
  • 1604 quarto Simmes, Valentine Aspley, William single-play print
      ESTC: S112291 17481 361 203c
      EEBO-TCP: A07074 - Folger Shakespeare Library - EEBO record – TCP HTML XML
      Observations: Title page includes: "Augmented by Marston. With the Additions played by the Kings Maiesties servants. Written by Ihon Webster

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Early Performances

  • Company: Children of the Chapel Venue: The Blackfriars Date: 1603 approx,
    Cast:
      Location: Venue type: commercial theatre
      Note: Indoor “private” theatre
      Information source: Wiggins, Martin. British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Volume 5: 1603-1608. 2015.
    • Company: The King’s Men Venue: The Globe playhouse Date: 1604 approx,
      Cast:
      • Burbage, Richard
      • Condell, Henry
      • Lowin, John
      Location: Venue type: commercial theatre
      Information source: Wiggins, Martin. British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Volume 5: 1603-1608. 2015.
    • Company: Venue: The Blackfriars Date: 1635
      Cast:
        Location: Venue type: commercial theatre
        Note: 28 February. Indoor “private” theatre
        Information source: Wiggins, Martin. British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue. Volume 5: 1603-1608. 2015.

      Modern editions

      • Bevington, David; Engle, Lars; Eisaman Maus, Katharine; Rasmussen, Eric, ed. English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology. London and New York: W.W. Norton, 2002.
      • Bevington, David; Engle, Lars; Eisaman Maus, Katharine; Rasmussen, Eric, ed. English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology. London and New York: W.W. Norton, 2002, pp. 545-613.
      • Kay, W. David, ed. The Malcontent.. Marston, John. London: A & C Black, 1998. New Mermaids.
      • Sturgess, Keith, ed. The Malcontent. Marston, John. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997, pp. 117–176. Oxford English Drama.
      • Trussler, Simon, ed. The malcontent. London: Methuen, 1987. Methuen student editions. Notes by: Naismith, William..
      • Marston, John The Malcontent. In: Neill , Michael; Jackson, MacDonald P., ed. The Selected Plays of John Marston. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986, pp. 187–287
      • Hunter, George K., ed. The Malcontent. Marston, John. London: Methuen, 1975. The Revels Plays.
      • Lawrence, Robert G., ed. Jacobean and Caroline Comedies. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1973. Everyman’s Library.
      • Gomme, A. H., ed. Jacobean tragedies. Middleton and Rowley, 'The Changeling', Tourneur, 'The Atheist's Tragedy', and 'The Revenger's Tragedy', Marston, 'The Malcontent', and Middleton, 'Women beware Women'.. London1969, pp. 414.
      • Harris, Bernard, ed. The Malcontent. Marston, John. London: E. Benn, 1967. New Mermaids.
      • Wine, Martin, ed. The Malcontent. Marston, John. London: Edward Arnold, 1965. Regents Renaissance Drama.
      • Lawrence, Robert G., ed. Early Seventeenth Century Drama. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1963. Everyman’s Library.
      • Marston, John The Malcontent. In: Wood, H. Harvey, ed. The Plays of John Marston. Vol. 1. Edinburgh / London1934
      • Brooke, Charles F. Tucker; Paradise, Nathaniel Burton, ed. English Drama 1580-1642. Boston: Heath, 1933.
      • Spencer, Hazelton, ed. Elizabethan Plays. Boston: D. C. Heath and Company, 1933.
      • Harrison, G. B, Abell, ed. The Malcontent. Ed., with an Introd., Notes and Glossary, by G. B. Harrison. London: Dent, 1933, pp. 130.

      Select Bibliography: Translations

      • FR:
        • Marston, John. "Le Malcontent". Tra. Guinle, Francis. Ed. Cottegnies, Line; Laroque, François; Maguin, Jean-Marie. Théâtre élisabéthain. Paris: Gallimard, 2009. Vol. 1.
      • IT:
        • Marston, John. "Il malcontento". Tra. Camerino, Aldo. Ed. Obertello, Alfredo. Teatro elisabettiano. Milano: Bompiani, 1951, p. 512–95. Vol. 1.
        • Marston, John. "Il malcontento". Tra. Melchiori, Giorgio. Ed. Praz, Mario. Teatro elisabettiano. Firenze: Sansoni, 1948. Vol. 1.
      • DE:
        • Marston, John. "Der Unzufriedene". Tra. Bodenstedt, Friedrich. Ed. Bodenstedt, Friedrich. John Webster's dramatische Dichtungen nebst Stücken von Marston, Dekker und Rowley. Berlin: Decker, 1858, p. 377-385.

      Select Bibliography: Criticism

      • Lovascio, Domenico. "Dukes, Dogi and Mogógni: Genoa in John Marston's 'The Malcontent'". Notes and Queries. 2017, vol. 2, 64 (262), p. 310-312.
      • Whalen, Benedict J. "Private Conscience, Public Reform, and Disguised Rule in 'The Malcontent' and 'Measure for Measure'". Ben Jonson Journal: Literary Contexts in the Age of Elizabeth, James and Charles. 2014, vol. 1, 21, p. 73-91.
      • Cordner, Michael. "'The Malcontent' and the 'Hamlet' aftermath". Shakespeare Bulletin. 2013, vol. 2, 31, p. 165-90.
      • Leonard, Nathaniel C. "Embracing the 'Mongrel': John Marston's 'The Malcontent', 'Antonio and Mellida', and the development of English early modern tragicomedy". Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies. 2012, vol. 3, 12, p. 60-87.
      • Fleck, Andrew. "The Malcontent". Shakespeare Bulletin. 2011, vol. 3, 29, p. 414-418.
      • Munro, Ian. "Knightly complements: 'The Malcontent' and the matter of wit.". English Literary Renaissance. 2010, vol. 2, 40, p. 215-37.
      • Lawrence, Jason. "Re-Make/Re-Model: Marston's 'The Malcontent' and Guarinian Tragicomedy". Ed. Marrapodi, Michele. Italian Culture in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries: Rewriting, Remaking, Refashioning. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007, p. 155-166.
      • Cathcart, Charles. "John Marston, 'The Malcontent', and the King's Men". Review of English Studies. 2006, vol. 228, 57, p. 43-63.
      • Pritts, Nate. "'O Do Not Rant, Do Not Turn Player': John Marston's 'The Malcontent' and Genre". Discoveries: South-Central Renaissance Conference News and Notes. 2004, vol. 2, 21, p. 3-4.
      • Janicka-Swiderska, Irena. "The theme of love and forgiveness in Shakespeare's romances, 'The Malcontent' and 'The City Madam'". Ed. Uchman, Jadwiga; Wicher, Andrzej. British drama through the ages and medieval literature. Lodz: Wydawnictwo Biblioteka, 2003, p. 41-50.
      • Burnett, Mark Thornton. "Staging the Malcontent in Early Modern England". Ed. Kinney, Arthur F. A Companion to Renaissance Drama. Malden: Blackwell, 2002, p. 336-52.
      • Hamlin, William M. "Temporizing as Pyrrhonizing in Marston's 'The Malcontent'". Comparative Drama. 2000, vol. 3, 34, p. 305-20.
      • Hayward, Steven. "I'll make one i' the masque': John Marston's 'The Malcontent' and the appropriation of the masque". Renaissance Papers. 1998, , p. 69-79.
      • Ayers, Peter K. "Stage, Page, and the Authority of Authorship: Reconsidering 'The Alchemist' and 'The Malcontent'". Ed. Goy-Blanquet, Dominique. Shakespeare: Variations sur la lettre, le mètre et la mesure. Amiens: UFR de Langues, 1996, p. 151-64.
      • Keller, James R. Princes, Soldiers and Rogues: The Politic Malcontent of Renaissance Drama. New York: Peter Lang, 1993.
      • Taft, Edmund M. "The Malcontent' redux: a response to Brownell Salomon and William W. E. Slights.". Connotations. 1992, vol. 1, 2, p. 86-92.
      • Salomon, Brownell. "The 'doubleness' of 'The Malcontent' and fairy-tale form.". Connotations. 1991, vol. 2, 1, p. 150-63.
      • Lanier, Douglas. "Satire, self, concealment, and statecraft: the game of identity in John Marston's 'The Malcontent'.". Pacific Coast Philology. 1988, vol. 1/2, 22, p. 35-45.
      • Gomez, Christine. "The malcontent outsider in British drama --- Jacobean and modern". Aligarh Journal of English Studies. 1987, 12, p. 53-74.
      • Champion, Larry S. "The Malcontent' and the shape of Elizabethan-Jacobean comedy". Studies in English Literature 1500-1900. 1985, 25, p. 361-79.
      • Bennett, Robert Beale. "The royal ruse: malcontentedness in John Marston's 'The Malcontent'.". Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England. 1984, 1, p. 71-84.
      • Clark, Ira. "Character and Cosmos in Marston's 'Malcontent'". Modern Language Studies. 1983, vol. 2, 13, p. 80-96.
      • Brodsky, G. W. S. "Fortune's bawd: symbolism of the Maquarelle episode in 'The Malcontent'". Seventeenth-Century News. 1983, 41, p. 9-11.
      • Lake, D. J. "Webster's additions to 'The Malcontent': linguistic evidence". Notes and Queries. 1981, 28, p. 153-8.
      • Hedrick, Donald K. "The masquing principle in Marston's 'The Malcontent'". English Literary Renaissance. 1978, 8, p. 24-42.
      • Foakes, R. A. "On Marston, 'The Malcontent', and 'The Revenger's Tragedy'". Ed. Hibbard, George. The Elizabethan theatre, 6: papers given at the International Conference on Elizabethan Theatre held at the University of Waterloo. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1978, p. 59-75.
      • Weiss, Adrian. "Webster's Induction and the Prologue to 'The Malcontent'". Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. 1976, 70, p. 103-7.
      • Greenman, David J. "Atmosphere, contrast, and control in Marston's 'The Malcontent'". Jahrbuch der Deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft. 1975, 111, p. 134-44.
      • Wharton, F. T. "'The Malcontent' and 'dreams, visions, fantasies'". Essays in Criticism. 1974, 24, p. 261-74.
      • Salomon, Brownell. "The Theological Basis of Imagery and Structure in 'The Malcontent'". SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. 1974, vol. 2, 14, p. 271-84.
      • Slights, William W. E. "'Elder in a Deform'd Church': The Function of Marston's Malcontent". SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. 1973, vol. 2, 13, p. 360-73.
      • Geckle, George L. "Fortune in Marston's 'The Malcontent'". PMLA: publications of the Modern Language Association of America. 1971, 86, p. 202-9.
      • Slights, William W. E. "Political morality and the ending of 'The Malcontent'". Modern Philology. 1971, 69, p. 138-9.
      • Faber, J. Arthur. "Rhetorical Strategy in John Marston's The Malcontent". Husson Review: A Journal of Business and the Liberal Arts. 1970, 4, p. 18-24.
      • Jensen, Ejner J. "Theme and Imagery in 'The Malcontent'". SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. 1970, vol. 2, 10, p. 367-84.
      • Korninger, Siegfried. "John Marston und die Bedeutung des 'Malcontent'". Ed. Viebrock, Helmut. Festschrift zum 75. Geburtstag von Theodor Spira. Heidelberg: Winter, 1961, p. 152-63.
      • Stoll, Elmer Edgar. "Shakspere, Marston, and the Malcontent Type". Modern Philology: A Journal Devoted to Research in Medieval and Modern Literature. 1906, vol. 3, 3, p. 281-303.
      • Taft, Edmund M. {Falta título artículo revista}. {Falta título revista}. , .

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