What You Will

by John Marston

Excerpt from What You Will At. Come, wee firaine the fpeé'cators patience in delaying their expeé'ted delightes Lets place our felues within the Cur taines, for good faith the Stage 15 fo very little wefhall wrong the geherall eye els, very much. 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.

64 pages, Hardcover

Published September 22, 2018

About the author

John Marston was an English poet, playwright and satirist during the late Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. His career as a writer lasted a decade, and his work is remembered for its energetic and often obscure style, its contributions to the development of a distinctively Jacobean style in poetry, and its idiosyncratic vocabulary.

Reviews

[Gill · Rating 4 out of 5]

Utterly bonkers but full of fun. The plot is, to be kind, tenuous, involving a widow attempting to remarry, a bunch of inept suitors and some pages who tangle the story up, but there are some hilarious scenes and funny characterisation.

Read as part of the REP online readathon of the repertoire of the late Elizabethan/early Jacobean Children's Companies.

[Jiang Yuqi · Rating 4 out of 5]

A difficult read. There’s no plot there’re only VIBES. In the first read half of the time I have no idea why people in conversations change their topic so suddenly and the vocabulary is difficult than usual so I have to pause and look up in OED to ensure I understand them right. Like…it’s so post-modern???? Is fun from time to time tho. Sorry Marston. I may change the rating to 4-star when I re-read.

Edit: I re-read it. I appreciate Marston’s courage in addressing “difficult issues” such as sexual abuses between males. Therefore 4 stars.

[mattie · Rating 3 out of 5]

baffling to read but actually a lot of interesting stuff going on especially re clothes and gender… was a bit of a struggle but I appreciated it by the end so 3 stars but I suspect it could potentially bump up to 4 stars on a reread