The Fawn Author:John Marston, Gerald Smith (Editor) Marston’s Parasitaster, or The Fawn, was first played sometime between February 4, 1604, and March 12, 1606. — The main plot, in which Dulcimel tricks her “all-wise” father into acting as naive go-between in her love affair with Tiberio, may be indebted in its general lines to the third story of the third... more » day in Boccaccio’s Decameron. But if so, Marston considerably improved upon Boccaccio. Boccaccio’s woman was already married and used « less