On the Art of Writing · Character
Marlowe
Elizabethan dramatist referenced for his blank verse.
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First appearance: lecture iv on the capital difficulty of verse
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Mentioned among the Cambridge University wits who shaped Elizabethan drama.
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See Marlowe in lecture iv on the capital difficulty of verse