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Christopher Marlowe
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This chapter reveals the extent to which Shakespeare borrowed from Christopher Marlowe’s plays, and how Marlowe’s ghost appears to have haunted him throughout much of his career. It also, however, explores key differences between the dramatists’ styles, including rhetoric and phraseology. Finally, the chapter investigates claims that Marlowe and Shakespeare co-authored plays and shows that those suspected collaborations are distinctly different from Marlowe in terms of poetic style. While Shakespeare sought to emulate Marlowe in his earliest plays, he also saw opportunities to distinguish himself from his predecessor through more flexible verse, more nuanced applications of rhetorical schemes, and an overall suppler dramatic style. The chapter also argues that we have been getting the title The Taming of the Shrew wrong for all these years.

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Shakespeare’s borrowed feathers

How early modern playwrights shaped the world’s greatest writer

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