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- Publisher: Chivers (1972)
- ASIN: B005E7QXOQ
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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Most people will only ever read Thomas Nashe as part of a college or university course, and even then it will most likely be a brief mention. However he is well worth paying extra attention to. One of the bad boys of English Literature, Nashe fled London after a disasterous play written with Ben Jonson, for which he would have probably been imprisoned. The play unfortunately hasn't survived, however this book collects together the rest of his most important works, including plays, poetry and prose. It includes the wonderful Lenten Stuffe, which was written in praise of Great Yarmouth, where he went after leaving London, and mostly involves fish.
Well worth getting past his sometimes unconventional writing style for.
Well worth getting past his sometimes unconventional writing style for.
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Thomas Nashe was one of the `university wits' of the late sixteenth century and was at Cambridge from c.1581-1588 where he would have known Christopher Marlowe and, possibly, John Donne. He is supposed to have collaborated with Marlowe on his Dido, Queen of Carthage though it is impossible now for us to identify his contributions.
This collection does justice to the wide range of his writings from the picaresque prose work that gives this its title to the actually very dirty and quasi-pornographic The Choice of Valentines.
Far less well know outside academic circles than his peers and friends, Nashe is just one of the Elizabethan writers who has been pushed aside for the more canonical writers but is well worth discovering. The Penguin edition is a good sample of this fascinating, funny, bawdy and entertaining writer - who also reveals serious issues about the Elizabethan way of thinking, not least about gender distribution.
This collection does justice to the wide range of his writings from the picaresque prose work that gives this its title to the actually very dirty and quasi-pornographic The Choice of Valentines.
Far less well know outside academic circles than his peers and friends, Nashe is just one of the Elizabethan writers who has been pushed aside for the more canonical writers but is well worth discovering. The Penguin edition is a good sample of this fascinating, funny, bawdy and entertaining writer - who also reveals serious issues about the Elizabethan way of thinking, not least about gender distribution.
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A radical piece of writing. One of the first 'novels' so to speak. Combines different styles of writing and provides a critique on writing itself - traditional writing practises are used to comment upon them. Nashe often is ambiguous as to his opinion on what he discusses, leaving the reader to interpret for themself the meaning. Very entertaining in parts; can be difficult to get started with as it is rather different from anything I had read before; definitely worth the 'getting started' though. Loved it. It's the kind of book you have to experience for yourself - no amount of explaining it will work. I read it for my 3rd year University course in Renaissance Literature. It was by far my favourite work on that course.
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