Thomas Nashe

Thomas Nashe

Thomas Nashe is considered the greatest of the English Elizabethan pamphleteers He was a playwright, poet, and satirist. He is best known for his novel The Unfortunate Traveller. 

Chronology of Nashe's works:

  • 1589 The Anatomy of Absurdity
  • 1589 Preface to Greene's Menaphon
  • 1590 An Almond for a Parrot
  • 1591 Preface to Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophel and Stella
  • 1592 Pierce Penniless
  • 1592 Summer's Last Will and Testament (play performed 1592, published 1600)
  • 1592 Strange News
  • 1593 Christ's Tears over Jerusalem
  • 1594 Terrors of the Night
  • 1594 The Unfortunate Traveller
  • 1596 Have with You to Saffron-Walden
  • 1597 Isle of Dogs (Lost)
  • 1599 Nashe's Lenten Stuffe