Thomas Nashe

Thomas Nashe (November 1567–1600?) was an English Elizabethan pamphleteer, poet and satirist. Son of the minister William Nashe and his wife Margaret (née Witchingham).

Works by Thomas Nashe

• 1589 The Anatomy of Absurdity
• 1590 Preface to Greene's Menaphon
• 1590 An Almond for a Parrot
• 1592 Pierce Penniless
• 1592 Summers last will and Testament (play performed 1592, published 1600)
• 1592 Strange News
• 1593 Christ's Tears over Jerusalem
• 1594 Terrors of the Night
• 1594 The Unfortunate Traveller
• 1596 Have with You to Saffron Walden
• 1597 Isle of Dogs (Lost)
• 1599 Nashe's Lenten Stuff

He is also credited with the erotic poem The Choice of Valentines and his name appears on the title page of Christopher Marlowe's Dido, Queen of Carthage, though there is uncertainty as to what Nashe's contribution was. Some editions of this play, still extant in the 18th century but now unfortunately lost, contained memorial verses on Marlowe.

Related Topics:
Christopher Marlowe - Dido, Queen of Carthage

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