University Wits: University wits are a group of young dramatists who wrote and performed in London towards the end of the 16th century. - They are called University wits because the were the witty students of Cambridge or Oxford University. - They upheld the classical ideas, and ridiculed the crudeness of the new English plays.
University Wits include: 1. Christopher Marlowe - (Cambridge) 2. Robert Greene - (Cambridge) 3. Thomas Nashe - (Cambridge) 4. Thomas Lodge - (Oxford) 5. George Peele- (Oxford) 6. John Lyly - (Oxford) 7. Thomas Kyd (not university-trained)
Source: An ABC of English Literature, Dr. M Mofizar Rahman