Which of the following qualities of heroic treatment was NOT needed in the plays of the University Wits?
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Correct answer: D. Lives of common figures
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The University Wits (Marlowe, Kyd, Greene, Peele, Lyly, Nashe, Lodge) favoured heroic themes, grand rhetoric ('Marlowe's mighty line'), spectacle and violent passions — not ordinary lives.
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