ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Shakespeare’s ‘Henry VI’: Christopher Marlowe Officially Credited As Co-Author : The Two-Way Oxford University Press will list both William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe as co-authors of the three Henry VI plays in its newest complete edition of Shakespeare’s work.

Detailed explanation-2: -Shakespeare then collaborated with George Peele on Titus Andronicus, with either Thomas Nashe or Thomas Kyd on Henry VI, with Thomas Middleton on Timon of Athens, and with George Wilkins on Pericles.

Detailed explanation-3: -Shakespeare, also born in 1564 but a comparatively late starter (he staged his first play in 1590/91), paid graceful homage to him in As You Like It and was clearly influenced by him in choice of subject and individual passages. But there is no documentary evidence of them meeting, let alone pooling resources.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Marlovian theory of Shakespeare authorship holds that the Elizabethan poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe was the main author of the poems and plays attributed to William Shakespeare.

Detailed explanation-5: -Marlowe popularized the use of blank verse in theater, meaning he popularized the verses of unrhymed iambic pentameter that would give Shakespeare’s plays their lilting musicality. And his Tamburlaine the Great, Parts I and II is widely considered to be the first great English tragic drama.