Laurie Ellinghausen (2008), 'The Uses of Resentment: Nashe, Parnassus, and the Poet's Mystery', in Labor and Writing in Early Modern England, 1567–1667, Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 37–62.

Pierce Penni/esse was written later, after Nashe arrived in London and began his stint as a writer for the print market, which was quite possibly his sole source of income. While Anatomie contains no topical references to London and very little of the gritty satire of the 1590s (largely because very little of it is original), Pierce is rife with the kind of grotesque, scathing humor characteristic of prose writing during the economically troubled decade. The persona of Pierce, which inspires the Ingenioso character of the Parnassus plays, ironically embraces his dislocation. 10

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"maisters" of the audience in his point of view, prompting a critique of the nobility that allows for the superior virtue and judgment of scholars.