ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -of Christopher Marlowe. In the earliest of Marlowe’s plays, the two-part Tamburlaine the Great (c. 1587; published 1590), Marlowe’s characteristic “mighty line” (as Ben Jonson called it) established blank verse as the staple medium for later Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatic writing.

Detailed explanation-2: -The first known use of blank verse in English was by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey in his translation of the Aeneid (composed c. 1540; published posthumously, 1554–1557).

Detailed explanation-3: -But in blank verse, there are no end-rhymes: lines of metered verse – usually iambic pentameter–simply follow one after another without being connected by rhyming words. Blank verse is not a recent invention: Christopher Marlowe and Shakespeare, among others, popularized the use of blank verse in their plays.

Detailed explanation-4: -The main plot of Doctor Faustus is written in blank verse, which is a lot less blank than it sounds. Blank verse is the fancy pants term for unrhymed iambic pentameter, which is the fancy pants term for… well something that’s fancy in and of itself.