ABSTRACT
Thomas Nashe (1567-1601), educated at St John's College, Cambridge, enjoyed the friendship of Lodge, Daniel Marlowe, and of course Greene, along with the enmity of Harvey (q.v.). His controversy with Harvey did not affect at all his judgment of Spenser whom he consistently and extravagantly admired. His tendentious representation of relations between Spenser and Harvey (not reprinted here) has however infected many modern accounts of the friendship; it should be ignored. See however K. B. Harder, 'Nashe and Spenser'. Vanderbilt Studies in the Humanities, II (1955).
