Nashe, Thomas (Vol. 88) | Katherine Duncan-Jones (essay date 1998)
Katherine Duncan-Jones (essay date 1998)
SOURCE: Duncan-Jones, Katherine. “Christs Teares, Nashe's ‘Forsaken Extremities.’” Review of English Studies n.s. 49, no. 194 (1998): 167-80.
[In the following essay, Duncan-Jones examines Nashe's relationship to Sir George Carey and Lady Carey in order to demonstrate the extreme poverty and legal difficulties Nashe experienced in his career. A letter from Carey to his wife demonstrates Nashe's debt to the Careys and the danger that his enemy Gabriel Harvey genuinely posed to him.]
The only surviving visual image of Thomas Nashe, a clumsy woodcut in a satirical pamphlet on him called The Trimming of Thomas Nashe (1597), shows him as a convicted felon, with his feet apparently sunk in mud or dung, and his legs shackled together.1 This image is of little or no value as a guide to Nashe's personal appearance, yet it may nevertheless indicate that he was correctly...
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