Author
Thomas Nash
1567-1601
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The Choise of Valentines; Or the Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo
"The Choise of Valentines; Or the Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo" by Thomas Nashe is an erotic poem composed around 1592 or 1593. The work recounts a sexual encounter between the narrator Tomalin and his lover Frances in a city brothel on Valentine's Day. When Tomalin proves inadequate to satisfy his partner, she turns to a dildo, prompting anxieties about masculine sexuality and female autonomy. The poem remained unpublished until 1899, likely due to its explicit content and frank treatment of desire.
The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life of Jack Wilton With an Essay on the Life and Writings of Thomas Nash by Edmund Gosse
"The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life of Jack Wilton" by Thomas Nashe is a picaresque novel published in 1594. Jack Wilton, an adventurous English page, swindles his way through military camps before embarking on a dangerous journey across sixteenth-century Europe. He witnesses massacres, befriends literary figures, travels with the Earl of Surrey, and plunges into Italy's intrigues with his companion Diamante. Through deception, imprisonment, romance, and moral dilemmas, Jack navigates a continent rife with hypocrisy, violence, and cultural corruption before ultimately departing Italy's shadowy depths.