2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
English Renaissance writer and playwright who wrote Rosalynde (1590) — the prose romance that Shakespeare transformed into As You Like It — and who represents the quality of source material Shakespeare routinely exceeded.
English Renaissance writer and pamphleteer known for The Unfortunate Traveller (1594) — the first picaresque novel in English — and for his vitriolic pamphlet wars with Gabriel Harvey.