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Which Elizabethan playwright is Christopher Marlowe believed to have greatly influenced?

  • William Shakespeare

  • Ben Jonson

  • Thomas Kyd

  • John Webster

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Christopher Marlowe is believed to have greatly influenced William Shakespeare, who was baptized in the same year as Marlowe. Both playwrights were prominent figures in the Elizabethan era, and Marlowe's use of blank verse and his overreaching protagonists likely inspired Shakespeare's own works.
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