Thomas Nashe, Have With You to Saffron Walden; Or, Gabriel Harvey's Hunt is Up

Peter Brynmor Roberts (Cardiff University)

Ed. by J A Roe, University of York
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.03: English Writing and Culture: Renaissance (Elizabethan and Jacobean periods) , 1485-1625.
Vol. editors: William M. Hamlin (Washington State University), J A Roe (University of York), Virginia Mason Vaughan (Clark University), Ema Vyroubalova (Trinity College Dublin)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1596

Places

England (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Satire

Resources

Thomas Nashe swears revenge on Gabriel Harvey in the second edition of Christs Teares (1594): “Impious Gabriell Harvey, the vowed enemie to all vowes and protestations [. . .] Was never whore of Babylon so betrapt with abhominations as his stile [. . .] is pestred with stinking filth [. . .] Thrice more convenient time I wil picke out to stretch him forth limbe by limbe on the racke” (2: 179-81). What had incensed Nashe was Harvey’s attack on him in A New Letter of Notable Contents (1593), after Nashe had proffered his enemy a public apology in the first edition of Christs Teares. His vengeance took two years to materialize, but, when it did, it was a bruising piece of personal satire.

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Citation: Roberts, Peter Brynmor. "Have With You to Saffron Walden; Or, Gabriel Harvey's Hunt is Up". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 20 August 2014 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=4865, accessed 24 November 2024.]

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