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Thomas Nashe (1567-1601)
'Let me but touch a peece of paper, there arise such stormes and tempests about my ears it is admirable.'
Satirist and pamphleteer Nashe arrived at West Harling as a six-year-old in 1574, to find life 'in the countrey' filling his Gothic imagination with images of darkness, witchcraft and lurking demons. But it was as a controversial writer of extraordinary and lurid prose that the self-proclaimed 'Pierce Penniless' of Elizabethan London made his reputation. A contemporary of Shakespeare, Nashe left few wealthy or influential people unaffected by his pen. He lived much of his life as a malcontent, and was eventually forced to flee London in 1597 to avoid arrest. Nashe arrived in Yarmouth, where he completed perhaps his greatest work, Lenten Stuffe (1599), just two years before his death.
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