FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DRFAUSTUS BY CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
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John Gower and Robert Peele
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John Skelton and Thomas lodge
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John Lyly and Robert Greene
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John Donne and Thomas Nashe
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-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: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -The two most famous university wits were Kyd and Marlowe. Both of them developed tragedy which gradually became the most popular poem of the time.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.