Christopher Marlowe

The term “university wits” was first used in 1887 by the literary historian and critic, George Saintsbury, to apply to six Cambridge University‐trained Renaissance writers. They are George Peele, Thomas Nash, John Lyly, Robert Greene, Thomas Lodge and Christopher Marlowe (1564‐93), author of Tamburlane, The Jew of Malta, Edward II and Dr Faustus among other works. Between them the cambridge wits were responsible for major innovations and improvements in English drama and greatly influenced Shakespeare. These six authors have a volume each in this Ashgate series The University Wits. In the series preface, Robert Logan of the...