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Who were known as the University Wits ?

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The University Wits were a group of late 16th-century English playwrights and poets who were educated at Oxford or Cambridge, known for their contributions to Elizabethan drama. Key figures include Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, and Thomas Nashe.

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The University Wits were a group of late 16th-century English playwrights and pamphleteers who were educated at the universities of Oxford or Cambridge. Notable members included Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, and Thomas Nashe. They are known for introducing new literary forms and a higher level of poetic language and dramatic structure to the English stage before Shakespeare.