Author Series 24
Thomas Nashe
* 1567 -1601
* He was a pamphleteer, poet, dramatist and author of The Unfortunate Traveller or The Life of Jack Wilton, the first picaresque novel in English.
* In 1589, he wrote ‘The Anatomy of Absurdity’ and The Preface to Greene’s Menaphon.
* ‘Pierce Penilesse: His Supplication to the Devil’ a satire focused on the seven deadly sins was Nashe’s most distinctive work.
* “Summer’s Last Will and Testament” is his picaresque novel.
* “Dido; The Queen of Carthage” is supposed a collaborative work with Christopher Marlow.
* In Christs Teares over Jerusalem (1593), Nashe warned his countrymen during one of the country’s worst outbreaks of bubonic plague that, unless they reformed, London would suffer the fate of Jerusalem.
* The Terrors of the Night (1594) is a discursive, sometimes bewildering, attack on demonology.
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