Antonio and Mellida the First Part Author:John Marston, G. K. Hunter (Editor) Antonio and Mellida is a late Elizabethan play written by the satirist John Marston, usually dated to c. 1599. The play was entered into the Stationers' Register on 24 October 1601, and first published in quarto in 1602 by the booksellers Matthew Lownes and Thomas Fisher.