Pierce Penniless his Supplication to the Divell is a tall tale, or a prose satire, written by Thomas Nashe and published in London in 1592. It was among...

known for his novel The Unfortunate Traveller, his pamphlets including Pierce Penniless, and his numerous defences of the Church of England. Nashe was the...

referred to him in 1592 in his prose satire on the vices of the age Pierce Penniless, His Supplication to the Divell. Reginald Scot listed Tom in his Discoverie...

English court. Thomas Nashe, commenting on the play in his booklet Pierce Penniless, stated that Talbot's example was inspiring Englishmen anew, two centuries...

Jonson bestowed praise on Alleyn's acting. Thomas Nashe expressed in Pierce Penniless (1593) his admiration for him, in a quartet of English actors including...

Boissy-sans-Avoir in the Île-de-France. His name is often mistranslated as Walter the Penniless. While the words in his name do literally mean "Walter without having"...

composing prose pamphlets (including a continuation of Thomas Nashe's Pierce Penniless), he returned to drama with great energy, producing almost a score...

Alleyn as the best actor of his generation, he called Alleyn a Roscius (Pierce Penniless, 1592); John Downes titled his history of Restoration drama Roscius...

partly based on Thomas Nashe's portrait of "an upstart" in his pamphlet Pierce Penniless. Gullio "maintains" Ingenioso very neglectfully. Foppishly dressed...

News From Hell (1606) is an homage to and continuation of Nash's Pierce Penniless. The Seven Deadly Sins of London (1606) is another plague pamphlet...

in literature – Journey to the West (Wu Cheng'en), Codex Huamantla, Pierce Penniless (Nashe), Doctor Faustus (Marlowe, approximate date) 1593 in literature...

of having written it. He denied it in the 1592 edition of his book Pierce Penniless, calling the work a "scald, trivial lying pamphlet". In 1969 Warren...

Strange News may refer to: Apology of Pierce Penniless; or. Strange News of the Intercepting Certain Letters, (1592), by Thomas Nashe Strange News from...

removed it in subsequent printings. Nashe attacked Richard Harvey in Pierce Penniless, writing "Would you, in likely reason, gesse it were possible for any...

he gives no further information. In August, Thomas Nashe published Pierce Penniless, His Supplication to the Divell, in which he refers to a play he had...

post-play entertainment that might occur. For example, Thomas Nashe, in Pierce Penniless (1592), writes "the quaint comedians of our time/That when their play...

him. They wind up at a cheap apartment and Bilko learns that Carlyle is penniless. Bilko tries several ways to sell Carlyle's artwork with no luck. Bilko...

Abner Fuller in Oak View Memorial Park," at the age of eighty-three. "Penniless at the time of her death in 1909, Lois Waisbrooker had spent over forty...

In 1849 he helped future chess master Johann Löwenthal, who was then a penniless immigrant. He was one of the participants in the 1st American Chess Congress...

reputed to be $35 million (the senior Eslaminia was, in fact, nearly penniless). When authorities began to investigate the murders, Dean Karny, the club's...

years from the screen, Crawford staged a comeback by starring in Mildred Pierce (1945), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 1955, she...

John Hannon on the banks of the Neponset River. Irishman John Hannon was penniless but was a skilled chocolatier, a craft which he had learned in England...

source of contention. Soon after their marriage, Davis's widowed and penniless sister, Amanda (Davis) Bradford, came to live on the Brierfield property...

for committing armed robberies and murders of loan sharks (who extorted penniless North Korean defectors) before the Professor recruited her for the heist...

Alejandro October 26, 1964 (1964-10-26) Juan Diaz (Rey) is dying and penniless; his last wish is that he can provide financial security for his family...

George V, but after the Queen's death in March 1953 she was left almost penniless and began selling her possessions. She went to live in a nursing home...

debtors' prison he became increasingly dependent on alcohol. He died penniless in the bandroom of the 77th Regiment in Galway, Ireland, on 4 August 1818...

drains his bank accounts, but when financial hardships leave the couple penniless, Raymond is no longer of use to her. With a rich new boyfriend in the...

but social status; she married outside her social class. Leonard, "a penniless Jew from Putney", lacked the material status of the Stephens and their...

been renamed to Patsy's Pies and is now under the new ownership of Sean Pierce (Dermot Mulroney); Sheila leaves town after her house burns down; Frank...