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Literary Movements: Part 3

  University Wits : This term coined by George Saintsbury refers to a group of 16th Century playwrights and pamphleteers who were educated at universities, predominantly Oxford or Cambridge with the notable exception of Thomas Kyd who is often associated with this group. Other prominent members of this group are :                  1) Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus              Tamburlain the Great, Edward 2                  2) Robert Greene : Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay  ,   Greene's Groats , Pandosto                 3) Thomas Nashe :    The Unfortunate  Traveller                   4) John Lyly :  'Plays':: Campaspe , Sapho and paho,  Endymion , Gallathea , Midas                'Pr...