Nashe and satire
This chapter examines the work of Thomas Nashe and its unsettled relationship to the genre of satire. Unlike the poetic ‘satirists’ of the late Elizabethan period, Nashe wrote in consciously unpoetic prose without didacticism, moral sincerity, or strict classicism, targeting specific individuals rat...
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Oxford University Press
2017
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