Thomas Nashe and Literary Performance Hardback
Edited by Chloe Kathleen Preedy, Rachel Willie
Part of the Revels Plays Companion Library series
Hardback
Description
As an instigator of debate and a defender of tradition, a man of letters and a popular hack, a writer of erotica and a spokesman for bishops, an urbane metropolitan and a celebrant of local custom, the various textual performances of Thomas Nashe have elicited, and continue to provoke, a range of contradictory reactions.
Nashe’s often incongruous authorial characteristics suggest that, as a ‘King of Pages’, he not only courted controversy but also deliberately cultivated a variety of public personae, acquiring a reputation more slippery than the herrings he celebrated in print.
Collectively, the essays in this book illustrate how Nashe excelled at textual performance but his personae became a contested site as readers actively participated and engaged in the reception of Nashe’s public image and his works. -- .
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:224 pages, 1 black and white illustration, 1 graph
- Publisher:Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:23/07/2024
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- ISBN:9781526149466
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Pre-Order
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:224 pages, 1 black and white illustration, 1 graph
- Publisher:Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:23/07/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9781526149466
