The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works

by Thomas Nashe and J.B. Steane

Book Overview

"Pamphleteer, poet, story-teller, satirist, scholar, moralist and jester . . ."

Thomas Nashe, a contemporary of Shakespeare, was writing in the 1590s, the zenith of the English Renaissance. Rebellious in spirit, conservative in philosophy, Nashe's brilliant and comic invective earned him a reputation as the "English Juvenal" who "carried the deadly stockado in his pen." In its mingling of the devout and bawdy, scholarship and slang,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140430679
• ISBN13: 9780140430677
• Release Date: May 1972
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher