This presentation on University Wits prepared by Radha.

2. Introducation
Religious Toleration
Kingdom Divided into two
parts,
North – catholic,
Southern – Protestant,
Defeat of Spanish Armada -
Reformation
Social Contentment
Increasing trade, Rules and
Taxes, Employment to Labor,
Developed Literary activity

3. (3) Enthusiasm
It is age of Dream,
adventure.
Mind search Farther than
Eyes
(4) Drama
The age of Elizabeth was
a time of Intellectual
Liberty

4. * University wits , the noble group of pioneer
English dramatist who wrote during the last 15 years of the
16st century .
* University wits is a term invented by literary historian to
identity a handful of writer , some well known ,oher less so ,
who first appeared in the early 1580s and had almost
completely vanished from the record by the mid -90s . This
series of six volumes highlight the role of the wits are not
major responsible for major improvements in the course of
English drama .
*

5. Educated Renaissance writer
Attending Oxford or Cambridge
 Elizabethan Group
Historian invent
Pioneer of English drama
Rival of Shakespeare

6.  Christopher Marlowe
 Robert Greene
George Peele
 John Lyly
 Thomas Nashe
Thomas londge
Thomas kyd

7. An English dramatist, poet and Translator of
the Elizabethan era.
Greatly influenced William Shakespeare.
His plays are known for the use of blank verse
and their overreaching Protagonist

8.  first play Tamburlaine the Great (1590)
 The Jew of Malta
 Edward the Second
 The Massacre at Perris
 Dr. Faustus

9. George Peele ( 1558 – 97 )

10.  The arraignment of Paris
 The old wives’ Tale
 The Famous chronicle king edward-1
 The love of king dacid and bathsheba

11. Women in the moon
Endymion
Alexander and Campaspe
 Midas

12. Thomas Nashe
 Attended Cambridge
 Important Part of
group

13. Thomas Nashe contribution in dram
• Christens Teares over Jerusalem
• The Terrors of the Night
• Unfortunate Travellrs
• Summer last Will

14. As a group , then these contemporaries illustrate well
The possible attitude of an educated man of the
Time towards the drama .