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William Nashe, father. Margaret Nashe (née Witchingham), mother. 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 ...
- English
- St John's College, Cambridge
- Playwright, poet, satirist
- Summer's Last Will and Testament (1592)
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. Nashe was educated at the University of Cambridge, and about 1588 he went to London, where he became ...
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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 was about the closest any Elizabethan came to being a novelist and achieved fame with his story The Unfortunate Traveller, about the wild adventures of an adventurous ...
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. Very little is known about Nashe’s life, including his exact birth date, his death date, or where he is buried.
Thomas Nash ( baptised 20 June 1593 – died 4 April 1647) [1] 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. [2]
- 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
Thomas Nashe. 1567–1601. Thomas Nashe claimed in Strange News (1593) that he had "written in all sorts of humors privately ... more than any young man of my age in England." He left in manuscript an erotic poem dedicated to "Lord S," published late in his short life a show written for Archbishop Whitgift, and helped in the composition of ...
Search for: 'Thomas Nashe' in Oxford Reference ». (1567–1601).His first publication was a preface to Greene's Menaphon (1589), surveying the follies of contemporary literature; he expanded this theme in The Anatomie of Absurditie (1589). His hatred of Puritanism drew him into the Martin Marprelate controversy.
