Thomas Norton wrote the first three acts of Gorboduc, the first regular English tragedy. Who wrote the last two?
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Correct answer: C. Thomas Sackville
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Gorboduc (1561), by Norton and Sackville, is Senecan and the first English play in blank verse.
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