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Saintsbury argues that the Wits drew on the ploddingly academic verse-drama of Thomas Sackville, and the crude but lively popular entertainments of "miscellaneous farce-and-interlude-writers", to create the first truly powerful dramas in English. The University Wits, "with Marlowe at their head, made the blank verse line for dramatic purposes ...
It includes 16th-century English writers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. This category contains late 16th century English playwrights commonly seen by scholars as belonging to the group known as the University Wits , most having been educated at the English universities ( Oxford and ...
John Lyly was born in Kent, England, c. 1553–4, the eldest son of Peter Lyly and his wife, Jane Burgh (or Brough), of Burgh Hall in the North Riding of Yorkshire.He was probably born either in Rochester, where his father is recorded as a notary public in 1550, or in Canterbury, where his father was the Registrar for the Archbishop, Matthew Parker, and where the births of his siblings are ...
The three playwrights whom Greene admonishes were members of a coterie of university-educated writers associated with Greene known as the University Wits. [21] The "famous gracer of Tragedians" is generally taken to refer to Christopher Marlowe, educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, who was accused of atheism. [22]
After a year in London, England, where she did secretarial and clerical work, she returned to university in 1976, completing a one-year Honours degree in English at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). [2] She remained in the Wits English department to pursue a Master of Arts, completed in 1979 with a thesis entitled "Mining, social ...
The New University Wits (a term applied by William Van O'Connor in his 1963 study The New University Wits and the End of Modernism) refers to Oxbridge malcontents who explored the contrast between their upper-class university privilege and their middle-class upbringings.
Marlowe, generally considered the best of that group of writers known as the University Wits, influenced playwrights well into the Jacobean period, and echoes of the bombast and ambition of Tamburlaine ' s language can be found in English plays all the way to the Puritan closing of the theatres in 1642.
English children's literature (2 C) ... University Wits This page was last edited on 7 March 2024, at 12:27 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...