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# Jonson responded by satirizing Marstons's wordy style in Every Man Out of His Humour ( 1599 ), a play acted by the Lord Chamberlain's Men.

( Note: the order of these first two events has been questioned by James Bednarz, who argues that "( a ) Histriomastix was deliberately launched in the final weeks of 1599 to serve as a critique of Jonson's first " comicall satire " Every Man Out, and that ( b ) Jonson's disparagement of Histriomastix in Every Man Out ( III. iv. 29 ) was subsequently added to the acting script of his already completed play, before the end of the same year, as a rejoinder to Marston's initial attack.

" See Bednarz, James.

" Marston's Subversion of Shakespeare and Jonson: Histriomastix and the War of the Theaters.

" Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England.

Vol.

VI.

New York: AMS Press, 1993.

103-28.