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). Another of the wits, though not university-trained, was Thomas Kyd .

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: -The term University wits refer to a group of young dramatist of the early Elizabethan period who were associated with the universities of Cambridge and oxford. University Wits consisted of writers like John Lyly, George peel, Robert Green, Thomas Nash, Thomas Lodge, Thomas Kyd and Christopher Marlowe.

Detailed explanation-4: -John Lyly (1554-1606) He is best known for his elaborate prose style, named after his moral prose romance, Euphues, the Anatomy of Wit, but he wrote several original comedies for the Court.

Detailed explanation-5: -They were looked upon as the literary elite of the day and often ridiculed other playwright such as Shakespeare who did not have a university education or a degree either from Oxford or Cambridge Universities. Greene calls Shakespeare an “upstart crow” in his pamphlet, Groats Worth of wit.