University Wits
University Wits Question: Assess the contribution of the University Wits in the field of English Drama. Answer University Wits, the name given by Saintsbury is to identify a group of playwrights, among when Marlowe, Greene, Nashe, and Peele are the most prominent. They received their education at Oxford and Cambridge, lived rashly in London and contributed significantly to the development of the national treasure of plays in the 1580s nad 1590s. The 'oxbridge' scholars did remarkably for the development of Elizabethan school of drama. They were more or less acquainted with each other and had fondness for heroic and tragic themes. These University man were usually actors as well as dramatists. Their training began as an actor and then they revised old plays and finally became independent writers. They often worked together either in revising old plays or in creating new ones. They were romantic and Bohemian ...