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6/28/2025, 4:57:48 PM
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The chronology is not in itself that informative, his book goes into detail as to his reasoning for why and when each play was written. You may reject a lot of the chronology - the thousands of phrases and lines in North in Shakespeare still require an explanation.
The oldest surviving blank verse play is Gorbudoc from 1561. McCarthy dates North's Titus Andronicus from the same time period when he was at Lincoln's Inn. From the wiki:
>In 1557, Thomas became Master of the Revels at Lincoln's Inn.[6] In 1560, North was praised by Jasper Heywood in his translation of Senaca's Thyestes for his "stately style" and "goodly grace". Heywood then listed him with other well-known writers at the Inns of Court, Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, and Christopher Yelverton.[7]
Marlowe did not invent English blank verse or English tragedy. Keep in mind essentially every play before the 1590s either is lost or is anonymous. Most of them being lost. Even from the 1590s to the early 17th century most plays were anonymously printed, including some in the Shakespeare canon.
The chronology is not in itself that informative, his book goes into detail as to his reasoning for why and when each play was written. You may reject a lot of the chronology - the thousands of phrases and lines in North in Shakespeare still require an explanation.
The oldest surviving blank verse play is Gorbudoc from 1561. McCarthy dates North's Titus Andronicus from the same time period when he was at Lincoln's Inn. From the wiki:
>In 1557, Thomas became Master of the Revels at Lincoln's Inn.[6] In 1560, North was praised by Jasper Heywood in his translation of Senaca's Thyestes for his "stately style" and "goodly grace". Heywood then listed him with other well-known writers at the Inns of Court, Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, and Christopher Yelverton.[7]
Marlowe did not invent English blank verse or English tragedy. Keep in mind essentially every play before the 1590s either is lost or is anonymous. Most of them being lost. Even from the 1590s to the early 17th century most plays were anonymously printed, including some in the Shakespeare canon.
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