Tamburlaine the Great | Style
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In his prefatory tribute to the first folio edition of Shakespeare’s plays, Ben Jonson cited (though in deference to Shakespeare) ‘‘Marlowe’s mighty line,’’ and critics tend to agree that Marlowe’s innovation in verse was the first and most influential predecessor to the stylistic achievements of the era. It was Tamburlaine the Great that made this powerful verse style famous. Marlowe stresses in the prologue to part 1 that it is his intention to depart from the ‘‘jigging veins of rhyming mother wits,’’ or unsophisticated rhymes like...
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