ABSTRACT
The epyllion was a popular means by which young poets could establish a name for themselves. Around the time that the epyllion became popular, authors such as Gabriel Harvey, Robert Greene, and Thomas Nashe developed new genres of print-based prose that helped to redefine the category of professional author. From playwrighting to anonymous flyting to the hack-work in London printing shops, Nashe was involved with almost every aspect of professional writing in late Tudor London. The health of the domestic fishing industry was a common topic for Elizabethan architects of commercial policy, and Yarmouth was ideally situated to launch fishing fleets into the North Sea. English efforts to enhance the trade of fishing in the second half of the sixteenth century invoked a theological argument that viewed England as the Canan and Eden of Europe, as John Speed put it in his Empire of Great Britain.
