As an instigator of debate and a defender of tradition, a man of letters and a popular hack, a writer of erotica and a spokesman for bishops, an urbane metropolitan and a celebrant of local custom, the various textual performances of Thomas Nashe have elicited, and continue to provoke, a range of contradictory reactions. Nashe's often incongruous authorial characteristics suggest that, as a 'King of Pages', he not only courted controversy but also deliberately cultivated a variety of public personae, acquiring a reputation more slippery than the herrings he celebrated in print. Collectively, the essays in this book illustrate how Nashe excelled at textual performance but his personae became a contested site as readers actively participated and engaged in the reception of Nashe's public image and his works.
Edited by:
Chloe Kathleen Preedy,
Rachel Willie
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 138mm,
ISBN: 9781526149466
ISBN 10: 152614946X
Series: Revels Plays Companion Library
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 01 August 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
A note on dating and spelling Introduction: Why Nashe? Why now? - Chloe Kathleen Preedy and Rachel Willie 1 ‘Frisking… aloft’: The pneumatic spirits of Thomas Nashe’s ‘paper stage’ - Chloe Kathleen Preedy 2 A flood in a furrow: Nashe, news, and monstrous topicality - Kirsty Rolfe 3 Textual superficiality and surface reading in Nashe’s prose - Douglas Clark 4 ‘When prints are set on work, with Greens & Nashes’: Nashe’s ‘popularity’ revisited – Lena Liapi 5 Thomas Nashe and his terrors of the afterlife - Chris Salamone 6 Thomas Nashe and the virtual community of English writers - Kate De Rycker 7 Thomas Nashe beyond the grave - Rachel Willie Afterword – Jennifer Richards Bibliography Index -- .
Chloe Kathleen Preedy is Associate Professor in Early Modern Drama at the University of Exeter. Rachel Willie is Reader in Early Modern Literary Studies at Liverpool John Moores University.
