Excerpt from Plays and Poems: The Insatiate Countess; The Malcontent; Satires, &C Of Marston's character as a writer, Mr. Gifford Speaks thus His Dramatic Works are distinguished by nothing so much as, a perpetual bluster, an overstrained reaching after sublimity of expression, which ends in abrupt and, nu intelligible starts, and bombast anomalies of language I (jonson's Works, Vol. There is some truth in. The remark; but Mr. Gifford is by no means infallible and his censure on this, as on many other occasions, is by far too sweeping and indiscriminate. A perusal of one or two of Marston's Plays will fully shew this and it may safely be predicted, that the fans which has survived the lapse of two centuries, is not destined to fall before the attack of the modem Zoilus. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.