You may be right, Julie, (in the implication you tactfully avoid stating) that it's parochial to view this as an English-only accomplishment.
(I was thinking of adding to my post above to avoid any impression that I was ignoring your point about mutual influence (in my comment about how the group's accomplishments might be viewed if had Shakespeare had never existed). The generally-agreed-on chronology, I think, suggests that Marlowe accomplished great work before he could have been influenced by Shakespeare's. I agree with what you say about mutual influence.)
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