单词 | university wit |
释义 | > as lemmasUniversity Wit University Wit n. (also with lower-case initials) any of a group of university-educated English poets and playwrights who flourished in the 1580s and 1590s. The writers so classified include Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Nashe, George Peele, Thomas Kyd, Robert Greene, John Lyly, and Thomas Lodge. ΚΠ 1870 N. Brit. Rev. Apr. 46/1 Shakespeare's style was less adapted to the sometimes ranting, sometimes stiff and statuesque, and always unnatural, method of the classical school which Nash and the ‘university wits’ patronized. 1943 Mod. Lang. Note 58 382 If an early version did indeed exist, ‘those unsavorie papers’ would certainly have earned the contempt of a University Wit like Greene. 2005 P. Honan Christopher Marlowe v. 133 He [sc. Watson] was among the earliest of the so-called ‘University Wits’. < as lemmas |
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