Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Nashe’s life and works
* Concise introductions to the major texts
* All the plays, poetry and pamphlets, with individual contents tables
* Rare texts appearing for the first time in digital publishing
* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Scarce pamphlets available in no other collection
* Includes Nashe’s poetry
* Features two biographies – discover Nashe’s Elizabethan world
* Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres
CONTENTS:
The Novel
The Unfortunate Traveller (1594)
The Plays
Summer’s Last Will and Testament (1592)
The Tragedie of Dido, Queene of Carthage (1594)
The Poetry
The Choise of Valentines (c. 1593)
Other Verses
Harvey-Nashe Controversy Pamphlets
Strange Newes, of the Intercepting Certaine Letters (1592)
Christ’s Tears over Jerusalem (1593)
Have with You to Saffron-Walden (1596)
Other Pamphlets
The Anatomy of Absurdity (1589)
A Countercuffe Given to Martin Junio (1589)
The Returne of Pasquill (1589)
Preface to Greene’s Menaphon (1589)
An Almond for a Parrot (1590)
The First Parte of Pasquils Apologie (1590)
A Wonderfull strange and miraculous Astrologicall Prognostication (1591)
Preface to Sir Philip Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella (1591)
Pierce Penilesse His Supplication to the Divell (1592)
The Terrors of the Night (1594)
Nashe’s Lenten Stuffe (1599)
The Biographies
An Essay on the Life and Writings of Thomas Nash (1892) by Edmund Gosse
Thomas Nashe (1900) by Sidney Lee
