He was killed at the age of 29 in what was supposed to be a duel over a tavern bill by Ingram Frazier. Marlowe raised tragedy from a kind of mechanical Senacan convention to a serious and emotionally gripping art form. He is known for his innovative use of blank verse in his plays and poems. He didn't invent it but he made it seem like natural speech. Blank verse is unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Free verse is unrhymed unmetered verse.
Iambic pentameter is a line which contains five metric feet which consist of one unstressed and one stressed syllable. While religious drama continues to be an important genre, a secular as theatre developed during the Renaissance. Stages of Secular Theatre in the Renaissance Three phases 1. Rising professionalism without permanent theatres 2. Professional production with permanent theatres 3.