"Who Feeds Revenge Hath Found an Endless Muse": Nashe, Satire, and the Poetics of Vengeance.
This article tells a new story about how satire and revenge tragedy cross-pollinated in the late Elizabethan period. Though widely acknowledged as a genius of prose satire, Thomas Nashe is not a figure we much associate with revenge tragedy. I argue, however, that Nashe was in fact one of that genre...
| Publicado en: | Modern Philology Vol. 119; no. 3; pp. 377 - 400 |
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