University wits are a group of young dramatists who wrote and performed in London towards the end of the 16th century during the Elizabethan Period. - Thomas Kyd, John Lyly, Robert Greene, George Peele, Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Nashe are university wits. - Though Edmund Spenser is from the Elizabethan Period, he is not a university wit. Source: An ABC of English Literature - Dr M Mofizar Rahman