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Jennifer Richards

is the Joseph Cowen Professor of English Literature at the University of Newcastle, and one of the founders of the Animating Texts Project at the University, developing digital technology for scholarly editors. She is the lead of The Thomas Nashe Project, funded by the AHRC, as well as associate editor of the Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities. She was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship (2013-15) for her most recent book project, Voices and Books in the English Renaissance: A New History of Reading (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
Thomas Nashe: A dominant literary voice in Elizabethan England
Thomas Nashe
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Thomas Nashe: A dominant literary voice in Elizabethan England

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We are used to thinking of Elizabethan (and Jacobean) literature with Shakespeare at the center, but evidence suggests that, although Shakespeare was considered an important writer in the last decade of the queen’s reign, Thomas Nashe was one of the…