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The University Wits, on leaving their universities faced the Elizabethan problem discussed by Francis Bacon in his essay, "Of Seditions and Troubles" — schools were producing more scholars than there were opportunities. The University Wits found employment in theatre, not their first choice, but there was little else for them.
Christine Isabel Hofmeyr (born 1953) is a South African academic who specialises in literary studies and literary history.She is professor emeritus at the University of the Witwatersrand, where she became a professor of African literature in 1994.
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 Cambridge).
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 ]
Robert Greene (1558–1592) was an English author popular in his day, and now best known for a posthumous pamphlet attributed to him, Greene's Groats-Worth of Witte, bought with a million of Repentance, widely believed to contain an attack on William Shakespeare.
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.
The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (/ v ə t ˈ v ɑː t ə s r ɑː n t /), commonly known as Wits University or Wits, is a multi-campus public research university situated in the northern areas of central Johannesburg, South Africa. The university has its roots in the mining industry, as do Johannesburg and the Witwatersrand in ...
Between 1997 and 2001, Nuttall was a lecturer in the English department at Stellenbosch University. [3] In 2001, she moved to the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) to join the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER) as a senior researcher, a position she held until 2010. [3]