was Thomas Hughes' _Misfortunes of Arthur_,  
The first recorded work in English to use this device was the  Earl of Surrey's 1510 translation of the _Aeneid_, while the first  play to use it was Sackville and Norton's _Gorboduc_. The first play  written entirely in it was Thomas Hughes' _Misfortunes of Arthur_,  but it did not become entrenched until it was popularized by  Marlowe and Shakespeare. FTP, name this style of verse consisting  of five beats of unrhymed iambic pentameter.
The first recorded work in English to use this device was the  Earl of Surrey's 1510 translation of the _Aeneid_, while the first  play to use it was Sackville and Norton's _Gorboduc_.
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