... of this play, like many of his other plays, is a single character who dominates the action (World History: The Modern Era). Marlowe's final and most famous play is Doctor Faustus. In this play, Faustus sells his soul to the devil for knowledge and power (World History: The Modern Era). Marlowe's achievements in literature enabled him to become the Queen's "poet-dramatist of genius ... the most important advances in tragedies (World History: The Modern Era). His play, Tamburlaine, was the first English tragedy to "successfully use blank verse"" (Elizabethan World). Marlowe's most famous ...

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