ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The university wits include Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, and Thomas Nashe (all graduates of Cambridge), as well as Thomas Lodge and George Peele (both of Oxford).

Detailed explanation-2: -The University Wits is a phrase used to name a group of late 16th-century English playwrights and pamphleteers who were educated at the universities (Oxford or Cambridge) and who became popular secular writers.

Detailed explanation-3: -He wrote eight plays in all. They are-Campaspe, Sapho and Phao, Gallathea, Endymion, The Man in the Moon, Midas, Mother Bombie, Love’s Metamorphosis and The Woman in the Moon.

Detailed explanation-4: -The university wits contributed to the formation of the romantic comedy which blossomed forth in the hands of Shakespeare. John Lyly, the courtier made notable contribution to the formation of English Comedy. His comedies are romantic as well as witty.

Detailed explanation-5: -The decade of the 1590s, just before Shakespeare started his career, saw a radical transformation in popular drama. A group of six feisty, well-educated men chose to write for the public stage, taking over native traditions. They brought new coherence in structure, and real wit and poetic power to the language.