Which playwright is credited with the first major use of 'mighty line' blank verse in Elizabethan drama, specifically in works like 'Tamburlaine the Great'?
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Correct answer: Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe transformed Elizabethan theater by perfecting unrhymed iambic pentameter, known as blank verse. This 'mighty line' provided the necessary dignity and power for the heroic and tragic subjects of the period.
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