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University Wits

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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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University Wits

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | | Copyright

University Wits, name given by Saintsbury to a group of Elizabethan playwrights and pamphleteers, of whom Nashe, R. Greene, Lyly, and T. Lodge were the chief.

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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "University Wits." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-UniversityWits.html

MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "University Wits." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-UniversityWits.html

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