Thomas Nashe

Thomas Nashe 1567-1601

1. Alma mater: Cambridge
2. father was a clergyman and later became a Minister
3. Involved in Martin Marprelate Controversy:
   1. Martin Marprelate was the pseudonym, under which appeared several Puritan pamphlets (1588-89) satirising the authoritarianism of the English Church under Archbishop John Whitgift. Nashe wrote several satirical pamphlates, of which **An Almond for a Parrot 1590 is important.
4. Works:
   1. He finished Marlowe’s Dido
   2. His only surviving play Summer’s Last Will and Testament 1592
   3. The Unfortunate Traveller or the Life of Jacke Wilton 1594
      1. Precursor of the picaresque novel, and the first English historical novel.
      2. It is an account of the wild overseas adventures of a youngster called Jack Wilton.
   4. The Anantomy of the Absurdity 1589
   5. Preface to Greene’s Manaphon 1589
   6. An Almond for a Parrot 1590
   7. Pierce Penniless: His Supplication to the Devil 1592
   8. Summer’s Last Will and Testament (play performed 1592, published 1600)
   9. Christs’s Tears Over jerusalem 1593
   10. Terrors of the Night 1594
   11. The Unfortunate Traveller 1594
   12. Have with You Saffron-Walden 1596
   13. Isle of Dogs 1597