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Thomas Nash (baptised 20 June 1593 – died 4 April 1647) was the first husband of William Shakespeare's granddaughter Elizabeth Barnard. He lived most of his life in Stratford-upon-Avon, and was the dominant male figure amongst Shakespeare's senior family line after the death of Dr. John Hall, Shakespeare's son-in-law, in 1635.
- 20 June 1593
- 4 April 1647 (aged 53), Stratford-upon-Avon, England
- Stratford-upon-Avon, England
- Possibly an assistant to the High Sheriff of Warwickshire
Sep 26, 2017 · We are used to thinking of Elizabethan (and Jacobean) literature with Shakespeare at the center, but evidence suggests that, although Shakespeare was considered an important writer in the last decade of the queen’s reign, Nashe was one of the dominant literary voices.
Home 1 / William Shakespeare Resources 2 / Shakespeare’s Era 3 / Shakespeare Contemporaries: An Overview 4 / Thomas Nashe 1567 – 1601. Thomas Nashe was a versatile Elizabethan writer who wrote plays, poems, pamphlets and prose – and was also known to write erotica for noblemen.
He resembles Shakespeare's character Falstaff, counting the hours in food and drink. Like Falstaff, too, he complicates the master/servant relationship, suggesting rebellion in the very manner of his obedience.
Mar 28, 2024 · Thomas Nashe (born 1567, Lowestoft, Suffolk, Eng.—died c. 1601, Yarmouth, Norfolk?) was a pamphleteer, poet, dramatist, and author of The Unfortunate Traveller; or, The Life of Jacke Wilton (1594), the first picaresque novel in English.
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Correspondence can be seen between the rationalism expressed in Act 5 of Shakespeare’s play Midsummer Night’s Dream and the ideas expressed in The Terrors of the Night; for example when Theseus in the play describes "the poet’s eye, in a fine frenzy rolling" and Nashe describes the constant "wheeling and rolling on of our braines".
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. In 1589 his preface to Robert Greene 's Menaphon was published.
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