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** Contrary to ''Film/{{Anonymous}}'' and others say, Shakespeare was ''not'' the first to write drama in blank verse. That honor goes to the obscure play ''Gorboduc'' a 1561 play by Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville. The first major Elizabethan tragedy in blank verse was Thomas Kyd's ''Theatre/TheSpanishTragedy'' the TropeCodifier for Elizabethan Tragedy, with its AntiHero protagonist, play-within-the-play, GambitPileup plot already containing much of the elements which prefigures the work done by Creator/ChristopherMarlowe (who was seen as the greatest talent of his day) and then by Shakespeare.

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** Contrary to ''Film/{{Anonymous}}'' ''Film/{{Anonymous|2011}}'' and others say, Shakespeare was ''not'' the first to write drama in blank verse. That honor goes to the obscure play ''Gorboduc'' a 1561 play by Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville. The first major Elizabethan tragedy in blank verse was Thomas Kyd's ''Theatre/TheSpanishTragedy'' the TropeCodifier for Elizabethan Tragedy, with its AntiHero protagonist, play-within-the-play, GambitPileup plot already containing much of the elements which prefigures the work done by Creator/ChristopherMarlowe (who was seen as the greatest talent of his day) and then by Shakespeare.
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* OnceOriginalNowOverdone: This has happened to some of Shakespeare's works, since a lot of people are familiar with the works inspired by his own (or even quotes) that the plays come off as rather run of the mill.

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* OnceOriginalNowOverdone: OnceOriginalNowCommon: This has happened to some of Shakespeare's works, since a lot of people are familiar with the works inspired by his own (or even quotes) that the plays come off as rather run of the mill.

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