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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, its brutality and its constant awareness of the imminence of death, his work epitomizes the ambivalence of the Elizabethans. Above all, Nashe was a great entertainer, his stories are told for pleasure in telling, his jokes are cracked for the fun of them, and his whole style speaks of a relish for living.
In addition toThe Unfortunate Traveller, this volume containsPierce Penniless,The Terrors of the Night,Lenten StuffandThe Choice of Valentines, and extracts fromChrist's Tears over Jerusalem,The Anatomy of Absurdity, and other works.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators.
