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About twenty years after Gorboduc, in about 1580, the first of the
University Wits appeared on the English stage. The Wits were a group of
seven young writers, bred in the traditions of the classical drama and
educated at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
(1) John Lyly, the first of the seven to enter the field, stands apart from
the others in that he wrote entirelyfor the court rather than for the
popular stage. Lyly’s eight plays, to which Shakespeare owed a
considerable debt, were court allegories. Their the mes were derived
from classical mythology, and nearly all were in prose, steeped in the
euphuistic style. Two of his best plays are Endymion and Campaspe.
(4) Thomas Lodge wrote classical plays like The Wounds of Civil War,
and A Looking Glass for London and England in collaboration with
Greene. [Lodge wrote a Defence of Poetry in response to
Gosson’s School of Abuse]