Thomas Nashe and Literary Performance

Chloe Kathleen Preedy, Rachel Willie (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2024
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-4946-6 (ISBN)

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Thomas Nashe is typically regarded as an urban author and a University wit, but his writings are inflected and shaped by regional travel, ‘non-literary’, non-elite works, and oral culture. The essays in this collection address Nashe’s use of the past, his engagement with the Elizabethan present, and his textual legacy. -- .

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. -- .

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 -- .

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 -- .

Erscheinungsdatum	24.07.2024
Reihe/Serie	Revels Plays Companion Library
Zusatzinfo	1 black and white illustration, 1 graph
Verlagsort	Manchester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-5261-4946-X / 152614946X
ISBN-13	978-1-5261-4946-6 / 9781526149466
Zustand	Neuware