FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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Oxford Movement
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University Wits
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Renaissance Movement
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -university wits, the notable group of pioneer English dramatists who wrote during the last 15 years of the 16th century and who transformed the native interlude and chronicle play with their plays of quality and diversity.
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: -A non-university Wit: William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564; died 23 April 1616), was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England’s national poet and the “Bard of Avon".
Detailed explanation-4: -William Shakespeare was heavily influenced by three University Wits which includes Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Kyd and John Lyly. Christopher Marlowe influenced Shakespeare more in the literary drama especially with the choosing of diction in tragedy. Marlowe chose blank verse as a medium for diction in his plays.