The comic grotesque is a powerful element in a great deal of
Elizabethan literature, but one which has attracted scant critical
attention. In this study, first published in 1980, Neil Rhodes
examines the nature of the grotesque in late sixteenth-century
culture, and shows the part it played in the development of new
styles of comic prose and drama in Elizabethan England. In defining
grotesque, the author considers the stylistic techniques of
Rabelais and Aretino, as well as the graphic arts. He discusses the
use of the grotesque in Elizabethan pamphlet literature and the
early satirical journalists such as Nashe, and argues that their
work in turn stimulated the growth of satirical drama at the end of
the century. The second part of the book explains the importance of
Nashe s achievement for Shakespeare and Jonson, concluding that the
linguistic resources of English Renaissance comedy are peculiarly
and perhaps uniquely physical."
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