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Thomas Nashe (baptised November 1567 – c. 1601; also Nash) was an Elizabethan playwright, poet, satirist and a significant pamphleteer. [1] : 5 He is known for his novel The Unfortunate Traveller , [2] his pamphlets including Pierce Penniless , and his numerous defences of the Church of England .
Thomas Nashe was a pamphleteer, poet, dramatist, and author of The Unfortunate Traveller; or, The Life of Jacke Wilton (1594), the first picaresque novel in English. Nashe was educated at the University of Cambridge, and about 1588 he went to London, where he became associated with Robert Greene.
Nov 18, 2021 · Thomas Nashe (baptised November 1567 – c. 1601) was an Elizabethan playwright, poet, satirist and a significant pamphleteer. His most famous works are The Unfortunate Traveller and Summer’s Last Will and Testament.
Jul 21, 2020 · Thomas Nashe ( 1567-1601) the satirical pamphleteer, who was wont to use language as a cudgel in a broad prose style, seldom disciplined himself to the more delicate work of writing poetry. Both his temperament and his pocketbook directed him to the freer and more profitable form of pamphlet prose.
Nashe's defense of poetry leads him to the conclusion that the best art is the most obscure and idealized. He aspires to sound like Edmund Spenser, George Chapman, or Roger Ascham: the purpose of true poetry is moral reformation, but only eloquence, strengthened by learning and experience, can effect such reform.
Thomas Nashe was a versatile Elizabethan writer who wrote plays, poems, pamphlets and prose - and was also known to write erotica for noblemen. He was about the closest any Elizabethan came to being a novelist and achieved fame with his story The Unfortunate Traveller...
Thomas Nashe, (born 1567, Lowestoft, Suffolk, Eng.—died c. 1601, Yarmouth, Norfolk?), English pamphleteer, poet, dramatist, and novelist.
Thomas Nashe, born in 1567 in Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, was a prominent Elizabethan poet, playwright, and pamphleteer. Nashe helped to establish the dominant literary voice of the queen’s reign in English drama and prose.
Thomas Nashe was best known during his own day as the writer of pamphlets, who used lively rhetorical devices, a ready wit, and outrageous personal attacks to get the better of the pompous...
Thomas Nashe was an Elizabethan playwright, poet, satirist and a significant pamphleteer. He is known for his novel The Unfortunate Traveller, his pamphlets including Pierce Penniless, and his numerous defences of the Church of England.
