Question
An Elizabethan-era tradition of dramatic performances at these places produced the first English tragedy, the Seneca-imitating play Gorboduc. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these venues where comedies like Gammer Gurton’s Needle were staged before James Burbage built the first English playhouse. Robert Greene and Thomas Lodge belonged to a group of playwrights known as these places’ “wits.”
ANSWER: universities [or colleges; accept University Wits; prompt on schools or educational institutions]
[10e] This University Wit found greater success on the professional London stage with his so-called “mighty line” of blank verse, which this author employed in plays like Tamburlaine and Doctor Faustus.
ANSWER: Christopher Marlowe [or Kit Marlowe]
[10h] The most enduring University comedy was this circa 1553 play by Nicholas Udall, in which Dame Christian Custance is pestered by the boastful title character while betrothed to the straightlaced Gavin Goodluck.
ANSWER: Ralph Roister Doister
<TH, British Literature>
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