Queen Elizabeth at the University of Cambridge, 5–10 August 1564

Nichols, John; Goldring, Elizabeth; Eales, Faith; Clarke, Elizabeth; Archer, Jayne Elizabeth; Heaton, Gabriel; Knight, Sarah

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“…In 1564, the queen herself had expressed this ethos when she declared, in a speech at Cambridge, 'there will be no directer, no fitter course, either to make your fortunes, or to procure the favor Early Theatre 21.2 Underemployed Elizabethans 59 of your prince, than, as you have begun, to ply your studies diligently'. 50 In the late-Elizabethan market for graduates, however, supply appears to have exceeded demand. Many of these surplus learned ended up in poorly paid employment, but others may have been even less fortunate: the 1598 'Act for punishment of rogues, vagabonds and sturdy beggars' indicts 'all persons calling themselves scholars going about begging'.…”

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Underemployed Elizabethans: Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Nashe in the <i>Parnassus</i> Plays

Roberts

2018

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Nashe in the Parnassus PlaysThe Parnassus comedies appeared at Cambridge University between 1598 and 1601. Since they make multiple allusions to topical events, texts, and personalities, scholars have conventionally read them as personal satire, with characters representing luminaries such as the recent Cambridge graduate Thomas Nashe. This article, however, demonstrates that speeches given to several characters in the last two plays are previously untraced quotations from another Cambridge alumnus, Nashe's antagonist Gabriel Harvey. While the plays evoke Harvey and Nashe, they do this because the two men's post-Cambridge experiences illustrate the plays' theme: the struggles of the scholar in the late-Elizabethan world.

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Section: Underemployed Elizabethansmentioning

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Underemployed Elizabethans: Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Nashe in the <i>Parnassus</i> Plays

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2018

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Queen Elizabeth at the University of Cambridge, 5–10 August 1564

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Underemployed Elizabethans: Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Nashe in the <i>Parnassus</i> Plays

Underemployed Elizabethans: Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Nashe in the <i>Parnassus</i> Plays

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