Abstract
Marston was a major figure in moving towards the creation of the total dramatic image: the language not only of words but also of sounds, actions and dreams. It is possible to identify two major conventions employed in his compositions; the episodic and the linear. The former is exemplified by What You Will; the latter by Sophonisba.
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M. C. Bradbrook, English Dramatic Form in the Old Drama and the New, 2nd edition (London, 1970 ) p. 71.
A. Artaud, The Theatre and Its Double, trans. Victor Corti (London, 1970 ) pp. 70–1.
Christian Kiefer, ‘Music and Marston’s The Malcontent’, SP, li (1954) p. 165
Sir Thomas Elyot, The Boke Named The Gouernour (1531), ed. H. H. S. Croft (London, 1883) Bk I, ch. 21, pp. 235–6, 238.
Dieter Mehl, The Elizabethan Dumb Show, the History of a Dramatic Convention (London, 1965) pp. 124–5.
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Scott, M. (1978). Dreams, Innovation and Technique. In: John Marston’s Plays. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03368-3_7
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