biography
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Nashe or Nash, Thomas
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pseudonym Pasquil
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| lived:
| (1567–1601)
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| biography:
| Playwright and satirist, born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, E England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, travelled in Europe, then went to London as a writer, where he plunged into the Martin Marprelate controversy, displaying a talent for vituperation, and attacking the Puritans in Pierce Penilesse, his Supplication to the Divell (1592). Other works include the satirical masque, Summer's Last Will and Testament (1592), and the picaresque tale, The Unfortunate Traveller or the Life of Jacke Wilton (1594). His play The Isle of Dogs (1597), now lost, drew such attention to abuses in the state that it was suppressed, the theatre closed, and he was thrown into the Fleet prison for some months. |
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