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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.
Sep 26, 2017 · Nashe, who wrote some poetry but more drama and prose, helped establish the nature of English theater, as well as expanding the range, depth, and sophistication of English prose style beyond what his predecessors and contemporaries could have imagined or thought possible.
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.
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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. Thomas Nashe is one of the major figures in the story of late Elizabethan literature, who took English fiction in new directions with The Unfortunate Traveller. He helped to develop drama: it is thought he collaborated with Christopher Marlowe on Dido, Queen of Carthage, Ben Jonson on The Isle of Dogs (now lost) and Shakespeare on ...
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Thomas Nashe was born in Lowestoft in 1561, and educated at St John's College, Cambridge. After graduating in 1586, he became one of the " University Wits ", a circle of writers who came to London in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I , and wrote for the stage and the press.