The collective name given to some of pre-Shakespearean playwrights, like Marlowe, Kyd, Peele, and Greene is:

The collective name given to some of pre-Shakespearean playwrights, like Marlowe, Kyd, Peele, and Greene is:

Explanation

The University Wits is a phrase used to name a group of late 16th-century English playwrights and pamphleteers who were educated at the universities (Oxford or Cambridge) and who became popular secular writers.