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Andrew Hadfield

is Professor of English at Sussex University and chair of the Society for Renaissance Studies. His most recent books are Edmund Spenser: A Life (2012) and Lying in Early Modern English Culture from the Oath of Supremacy to the Oath of Allegiance (2017). He has also edited The Oxford Handbook of English Prose, 1500-1640 (2013), and, with Duncan Fraser, Gentry Life in Georgian Ireland: The Letters of Edmund Spencer (1711-1790) (2017).
Thomas Nashe: A dominant literary voice in Elizabethan England
Thomas Nashe
Shakespeare and Beyond

Thomas Nashe: A dominant literary voice in Elizabethan England

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We are used to thinking of Elizabethan (and Jacobean) literature with Shakespeare at the center, but evidence suggests that, although Shakespeare was considered an important writer in the last decade of the queen’s reign, Thomas Nashe was one of the…