New post: updated edition of Saffron Walden Annotated, at Amazon. (Tom Nashe’s text, my annotations.) No huge changes but if you hate typos there are way fewer of them now. Links in the post.

Saffron Walden Annotated: Second Edition

https://edevere17.com/2025/08/27/saffron-walden-annotated-second-edition/

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Shakespeare’s famous “upstart crow” insult may have come from collaborator Thomas Nashe, new research reveals

A team of literary scholars has reignited controversy surrounding one of English literature’s most renowned insults—”upstart crow”—long believed to be a jealous jibe at William Shakespeare by fellow playwright Robert Greene...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/06/shakespeares-famous-upstart-crow-insult/

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The followup to my broadside, as promised.

New blog post: Proof of (Nashe's) Life

The scholars arrive, followed by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

https://edevere17.com/2025/07/03/proof-of-nashes-life/

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Proof of (Nashe's) Life • Shake-Speare’s blog

Proof that Tom Nashe lived has been posted. I have the link, and words to go with it. Then I have words with the Archbishop of Canterbury.

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New post: Shakespeare Yes, Thomas Nashe No

I defend the Thomas Nashe I knew from being erased by a meme that's been given way too much airtime. I brought up the artillery for this one.

https://edevere17.com/2025/06/22/shakespeare-yes-thomas-nashe-no/

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Here's a study by Samuel Fallon about Paper Monsters - that is, serial, semifictional personae such as #ThomasNashe's Pierce Penilesse, Robert Greene's ghost & others, who became collective, public fictional figures of #PrintCulture

📖 https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1663870713

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Beauty is but a flower
Which wrinkles will devour;
Brightness falls from the air;
Queens have died young and fair;
- Adieu, Farewell, Earth's Bliss by Thomas Nashe
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