Nashe, Thomas (Vol. 88) | Jonathan V. Crewe (essay date 1982)
Jonathan V. Crewe (essay date 1982)
SOURCE: Crewe, Jonathan V. “The Loss of Decorum.” In Unredeemed Rhetoric: Thomas Nashe and the Scandal of Authorship, pp. 21-44. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982.
[In the essay below, Crewe contrasts Nashe's theatrical rhetoric with Puritan rhetorical standards, arguing that the language of excess in Nashe is an effective rhetorical strategy and not merely a lack of self-control. The critic primarily focuses on Nashe's earlier works, noting that in later works the author attempted to redeem his rhetoric from the dangers of theatrical duplicity or manipulation.]
The critics whose work I surveyed in the previous chapter are linked in a common effort to produce what is by implication lacking in the literature of the English Renaissance, namely a language of final order and ultimate significance. It goes almost without saying that their effort parallels and repeats that of authors within...
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