Clifford Leech
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Professor of English, University of Toronto, 1963–74. Author of The Dramatist's Experience with Other Essays in Critical Theory and others; editor of Marlowe: A Collection of Critical Essays.
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Christopher Marlowe was an English Elizabethan poet and William Shakespeare’s most important predecessor in English drama. Marlowe is noted especially for his establishment of dramatic blank verse, particularly in such plays as the tragedy Doctor Faustus (1604). Marlowe’s murder in a tavern brawl…
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