ABSTRACT
Offended by Jonson’s unflattering portrait of him and unimpressed by his satire-as-humoral-purging paradigm, Marston lashed out against his rival in his next play, Jacke Drum’s Entertainment: or The Comedie of Pasquill and Katherine (1600). His main point of attack was what he interpreted as frivolousness and self-interest on the part of Jonson, whom he accused of presenting humorous characters for the sole sake of laughing at them and making himself feel superior. In the process of undermining his rival’s satiric method, Marston also blatantly employs his own violent Juvenalian methods against him in defiance of his anti-Juvenalian criticism in his humors comedies.
