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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20071102
Author:Eve Zibart - Washington Post Staff Writer

If Christopher Marlowe was not quite Shakespeare's evil twin, he was certainly the dark and dangerous mirror image.

They were the same age and well-acquainted, although perhaps not close friends. Marlowe's sensational "Tamburlaine," possibly the first professionally staged play Shakespeare saw, inspired Shakespeare's first historical play, "Henry VI" -- whereupon Marlowe responded with "Edward II." Shakespeare may even have acted in Marlowe's plays.

But although it was Marlowe who made iambic pentameter the standard rhythm of the Elizabethan stage, it was Shakespeare who turned it into ...

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