John Marston (playwright)

For the 19th-century dramatist, see John Westland Marston.
Title page of John Marston's The Metamorphosis of Pigmalion's Image, 1598

John Marston (baptised 7 October 1576 – 25 June 1634) was an English playwright, poet and satirist during the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods. His career as a writer lasted only a decade. 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.