This chapter explores examples of rhetorical and theatrical excess in the Gray’s Inn play Jocasta. Brown suggests that the scandalous satire characteristic of inns of court writing in the 1590s had roots in respectable renunciations of the prodigal and in moralistic drama by demonstrating how the play can be read productively in the wider context of George Gascoigne’s writing, specifically in relation to the anthology A Hundreth sundrie flowres bound up in one small Poesie, where it was initially printed. Her subsequent exploration of the moral nature of Jocasta shows a clear Gray’s Inn context for the play, establishing how the tone, style, performance qualities, and themes of this de casibus tragedy establish its place in the succession of inns plays from Gorboduc to The Misfortunes of Arthur. In a period when the value of imaginative literature was still being established, Brown demonstrates that didactic writing provided opportunities not only for earnest reformation and reflection, but for play.