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Which phrase did Ben Jonson use to describe Christopher Marlowe’s blank verse?
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Christopher Marlowe
Detail of a portrait thought to be of Christopher Marlowe, dated 1585, artist unknown; in the collection of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, England.
The dramatist, poet, and literary critic Ben Jonson famously described Christopher Marlowe’s blank verse as his "mighty line."1