What You Will

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For the play by William Shakespeare, see Twelfth Night, or What You Will.


What You Will is a comedy by John Marston, written in 1601 and performed by the boy players of the St. Paul's theatre in London.

The play focuses on the relationship between two rival poets: the bitter, misanthropic satirist Lampatho Doria and the generous, lighthearted epicurean Quadratus. The play itself hardly has a plot, being more a series of comic vignettes and debates between characters. It criticises the satirist as a mean-spirited, envious man, and celebrates good humour, merriment and 'play'. The subplot involves the tricking and humiliation of various fools by a group of boy pages.

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Philip J. Finkelpearl, John Marston of the Middle Temple. Anthony Caputi, John Marston, Satirist.

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