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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| description | 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 rather than abstract types. However, he did share the more conventional satirists’ vitriolic tone and his work was included among the satires to be burned under the Bishops’ Ban of 1599. Nashe adapted the egocentric prose of Pietro Aretino and the vigorous colloquial language of Puritan writers to his idiosyncratic style, with which he parodied almost every contemporary genre of prose, poetry, and drama. Showcasing his generic unfixity and unsettling personal exuberance, his most famous work, the proto-novelistic The Unfortunate Traveller, is a hybrid text which toys with different literary forms and styles, including satire, creating a new variety of fictional writing as a result. |
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