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    Thomas Nashe (baptised 30 November 1567 – c. 1601; also Nash) was an Elizabethan playwright, poet, satirist and a significant pamphleteer.: 5  He is known...
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    was a notable scholar, whose reputation suffered from his quarrel with Thomas Nashe. Henry Morley, writing in the Fortnightly Review (March 1869), has argued...
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    century. In 1597 he wrote a pamphlet sharply criticising the writer Thomas Nashe, which for many years was believed to be the work of Gabriel Harvey....
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    century. The tradition of fortune telling by days of birth is much older. Thomas Nashe recalled stories told to children in Suffolk in the 1570s which included...
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    Henry VI, Part 1 (category Plays by Thomas Nashe)
    a history play by William Shakespeare—possibly in collaboration with Thomas Nashe and others—believed to have been written in 1591. It is set during the...
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    rewritten parts of Greene's play A Knack to Know a Knave. Believing that Thomas Nashe is "by far the stronger suspect" for having written the passage regarding...
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  • The Unfortunate Traveller (category Works by Thomas Nashe)
    novel by Thomas Nashe first published in 1594 but set during the reign of Henry VIII of England. In this adventurous and episodic work, Nashe's protagonist...
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    Oxfordshire The name "Thomas à Becket" is not contemporary but was first used by Thomas Nashe in the 1590s. There is a legend that claims Thomas's mother was a...
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    earlier reference occurs in the pamphlet Nashe's Lenten Stuffe, published in 1599 by the Elizabethan writer Thomas Nashe, in which he says "Next, to draw on...
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    Marlowe, Robert Greene, and Thomas Nashe from Cambridge, and John Lyly, Thomas Lodge, and George Peele from Oxford. Thomas Kyd is also sometimes included...
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  • The Isle of Dogs (play) (category Plays by Thomas Nashe)
    The Isle of Dogs is a play by Thomas Nashe and Ben Jonson which was performed in 1597. It was immediately suppressed, and no copy of it is known to exist...
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    meal. The word pot-lucke appears in the 16th-century English work of Thomas Nashe discussing wine, and in his play "Summer's Last Will and Testament",...
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    page attributes the play to Marlowe and Thomas Nashe, yet some scholars question how much of a contribution Nashe made to the play. Evidence No manuscripts...
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  • In Thomas Nashe's Address to the gentlemen students of both universities, prefixed to Robert Greene's Arcadia (1587), Roydon is mentioned with Thomas Achlow...
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    the English playwright Thomas Nashe wrote a poem known as The Choise of Valentines, Nashe's Dildo or The Merrie Ballad of Nashe his Dildo. This was not...
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    Petronius' novel Satyricon (54–68 AD), The Unfortunate Traveller (1594) by Thomas Nashe, both Maiden Voyage (1943) and A Voice Through a Cloud (1950) by Denton...
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    His burial inscription and epitaph reads: HEERE RESTETH YE BODY OF THOMAS NASHE, ESQ. HE MAR. ELIZABETH, THE DAVG: & HEIRE OF IOHN HALLE, GENT. HE DIED...
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    Pasquill was traditionally believed to have been Thomas Nashe, however R. B. McKerrow, the editor of Nashe's complete works refutes this: "further study led...
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    come from one of the following: a nickname of contempt: Ben Jonson and Thomas Nashe wrote a satirical play in 1597, which was a mocking attack on the island...
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  • Anonymous (film) (category Films scored by Thomas Wander)
    "Kit" Marlowe, poet and dramatist Robert Emms as Thomas Dekker, dramatist Tony Way as Thomas Nashe, poet and satirist Alex Hassell as Gabriel Spenser...
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    appears in the 1596 pamphlet "Haue with You to Saffron-Walden" written by Thomas Nashe, who mentions that the rhyme was already old and its origins obscure:...
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  • The Choise of Valentines (category Works by Thomas Nashe)
    His Dildo, which alternatively acquired the label "Nashe's Dildo", is an erotic poem by Thomas Nashe, thought to have been composed around 1592 or 1593...
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  • with the Dragon Tattoo, Dontos Hollard in HBO's Game of Thrones, and Thomas Nashe in Anonymous. Way was born in Rochford, Essex and grew up in Wickford...
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    which he co-wrote with Thomas Nashe, The Isle of Dogs, was suppressed after causing great offence. Arrest warrants for Jonson and Nashe were issued by Queen...
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    verbal arts from approximately the time of Cicero down to the time of Thomas Nashe (1567–c. 1600). His dissertation is still noteworthy for undertaking...
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    Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Donne Thomas Gray Barbara Hamby Horace John Keats Federico García Lorca Thomas Nashe Pablo Neruda Sharon Olds Ronsard Percy...
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  • Dogs can also refer to: The Isle of Dogs (play), a 16th-century play by Thomas Nashe and Ben Jonson Isle of Dogs, a 2001 novel by Patricia Cornwell Isle of...
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  • Summer's Last Will and Testament (category Plays by Thomas Nashe)
    Will and Testament is an Elizabethan stage play, a comedy written by Thomas Nashe. The play is notable for breaking new ground in the development of English...
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    important Elizabethan prose writers were John Lyly (1553 or 1554–1606) and Thomas Nashe (November 1567 – c. 1601). Lyly is an English writer, poet, dramatist...
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    1580s and 1590s like Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, Thomas Nashe, George Peele, and Thomas Lodge, as one of the so-called University Wits. He has been...
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