Shakespeare and the versification of English drama 1561 1642 Why study versification versification analyses How it all began: from Surreys Aeneid to Marlowes Tamburlaine Early Elizabethan playwrights: Kyd Marlowe Greene Peele early Shakespeare Henry VI and Arden of Faversham Shakespeares versification: evolution. co authored plays. A lovers complaint Jacobean and Caroline playwrights: from Shakespeare to Shirley Conclusions: versification 1540s 1640s