FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DRFAUSTUS BY CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Had training at two universities
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gave curriculum of two universities
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Erected two universities
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none of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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-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: -Three of the wits-John Lyly, Thomas Lodge, and George Peele-were graduates of Oxford University, whereas Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, and Thomas Nashe were students at Cambridge.
Detailed explanation-5: -They are called “University Wits”. They absorbed the new renaissance spirit and synthesizing the vigour of the native tradition with more refined classicism. The group consisted of seven-John Lyly, Thomas Kyd, Thomas Nash, Thomas Lodge, George Peele, Robert Greene and Christopher Marlowe.