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Hace 4 días · It was the title of a notorious satirical play of 'very seditious and slandrous' content, written by Thomas Nashe in collaboration with Ben Jonson and others, and performed at the Swan Theatre by the Earl of Pembroke's Men in 1597.
Hace 2 días · While Thomas was a Welsh poet from a bygone generation, it’s narrative smash cuts not unlike this one that David Foster Wallace references in his declaration, “the metronome of literary fashion looks to be set on presto,” speaking about the “conspicuously young” brat pack writers—with whom he identified—that emerged in the late ‘80s.
Hace 1 día · Thomas Nashe’s prose work Lenten Stuffe (1599), apparently a study of herring, contains wide-ranging religious themes including anti-Catholic satire, so it is clear that the connection between Catholicism and fish would have been readily understood. 1. In early modern literature, the mention of fish is often a coded reference to these issues.
Hace 4 días · (Niche Nashe note: not that Unfortunate Traveller.) [1] They love me well—fabulous people, lovely, lovely guys, top blokes, and they usually do what I tell them ... Thomas Nashe’s wild, picaresque, outrageous prose fiction was first published in 1594. Post navigation.
Hace 5 días · My current research combines Disability Studies and Shakespeare Studies — specifically, representations of neurodiversity and intellectual disability on the early modern stage, with a focus on natural and artificial fools, changelings, rustics and clowns, the insane, and melancholic.
Hace 3 días · Thomas Tasker by indenture dated 30 March 1843 gave a rent-charge of £10 to be distributed equally among 20 deserving widows. The charge is now paid out of pasture land in Stratford and distributed to 20 poor women.
Hace 3 días · In Time Of Pestilence. Adieu, farewell earth's bliss! This world uncertain is: Fond are life 's lustful joys, Death proves them all but toys. None from his darts can fly; I am sick, I must die- Lord, have mercy on us!
