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.
Represents the Elizabethan literary world Shakespeare inhabited — the pamphleteers, prose writers, and university wits whose world overlapped with the theater — providing context for Shakespeare's milieu.
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