SOURCE: Lewis, C. S. “Prose in the ‘Golden’ Period.” In English Literature in the Sixteenth Century Excluding Drama, pp. 394-465. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1944.
In this excerpt, Lewis characterizes Nashe as one of the greatest prose humorists and pamphleteers of his time. The critic writes that Nashe was highly original and uniquely able to use coarse and grotesque language to his rhetorical advantage, comparing him to both Picasso and James Thurber in his mastery of dark and violent imagery, used primarily to comic effect.
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