The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works
Author: Thomas Nashe
Thomas Nashe, a contemporary of Shakespeare, was writing in the 1590s, the zenith of the English Renaissance. Rebellious in spirit, conservative in philosophy, Nashe’s brilliant and comic invective earned him a reputation as the ‘English Juvenal’ who ‘carried the deadly stockado in his pen.’ In its mingling of the devout and the bawdy, scholarship and slang, its brutality….Read More
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