Thomas Nashe(1567-1601)

A. a Cambridge graduate---controversial pamphlets, satire, plays, a novel, lyric
     verse
B. One of the University wits
C. Nashe against Gabriel Harvey---exchanged vituperative and slanderous
    pamphlets
D. Picaresque narrative--The Unfortunate Traveler, or the Life of  Jack Wilton
E. Comedy---Summer's Last Will and Testament
                     The Anatomy of Absurdity---an attack on women
F. Prose style ---modern: headlong, impatient, colloquial, and vivid
G. poems: Spring, the Swee Spring, A Litany in Time of  Plague