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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.
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.
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...
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 Church of England. [3] Life.
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.
He helped to develop drama: it is thought he collaborated with Christopher Marlowe on Dido, Queen of Carthage, Ben Jonson on The Isle of Dogs (now lost) and Shakespeare on the Henry VI plays; he wrote shocking pornographic poetry; and he wrote a satire of travel writing and argued against the value of imperial expansion.
Thomas Nashe, (born 1567, Lowestoft, Suffolk, Eng.—died c. 1601, Yarmouth, Norfolk?), English pamphleteer, poet, dramatist, and novelist.
