FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
PLAY BY SAKESPEAR
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Ben Johnson
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Christopher Marlow
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Philip Sidney
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Thomas Kyd
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Detailed explanation-1: -Christopher Marlowe was an Elizabethan poet and William Shakespeare’s most important predecessor in English drama.
Detailed explanation-2: -Marlowe pioneered the use of blank verse, the form Shakespeare uses in all his plays. Like Shakespeare, Marlowe also portrayed complex tragic characters on stage. He was only two months older than Shakespeare, but he was already the most famous playwright in England when Shakespeare began his career.
Detailed explanation-3: -#2: Ovid, selected works (1502) Ovid was the most important literary influence on Shakespeare, especially early in his career, and he was widely identified as an Ovidian poet by his contemporaries.
Detailed explanation-4: -William Shakespeare has become the most famous playwright of his time. He wrote or co-wrote almost 40 plays. But he was one of many writers producing plays in London at that time. The best known of the others are Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson.