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University Wits, name given to a group of somewhat dissolute Elizabethan playwrights educated at Oxford or Cambridge and therefore contemptuous of such ‘uneducated’ writers as Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. Among them were Greene, Nashe, Peele, and, the most important in the development of the English theatre, Marlowe. A lesser member of the group was Thomas Lodge (c.1557/8–1625), on whose pastoral romance Rosalind (1590) Shakespeare based As You Like It.

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