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University Wits
- Christopher MarloweChristopher Marlowe was baptised at St George's Church in Canterbury on the 26th of February 1564. He was the second child born to John Marlowe, a local…
- University WitsChristopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, and Thomas Nashe sat at Cambridge while John Lyly, Thomas Lodge, and George Peele studied at Oxford.
- Robert Greene (dramatist)A baptism record from the 11th of July 1558 at St George's church in Norwich offers the only concrete anchor for a man whose life remains slippery.
- Thomas KydThomas Kyd entered the world through a church record on the 6th of November 1558. The entry at St Mary Woolnoth in London listed him as the son of Francis…
- Thomas NasheThomas Nashe entered the world on the 30th of November 1567 in Lowestoft, a coastal town in Suffolk. His father William served as curate there before the…