The current surge of interest in the Elizabethan poet, dramatist, prose-writer and critic, Thomas Nashe, follows years of neglect or undisguised hostility. Yet, as early allusions testify, Nashe was a name which imposed itself on contemporary culture. Nashe annoyed and even disturbed his contemporaries, but they certainly paid attention to him because he pioneered new approaches to writing, and indeed to living, and because he was an astute critic. The essays in this volume have been chosen for the skill with which they present diverse approaches to key issues in Nashe. All Nashe's texts are covered, as are his relationships with contemporaries, like Shakespeare. The introduction analyses different approaches, locating them in the history of Nashe criticism, and suggests areas for future research. It argues that Nashe's importance to Renaissance studies lies in his anomalousness, as he forces us to rethink the Renaissance. He makes the Renaissance unfamiliar again, and pushes criticism out of its comfort zone.

Georgia Brown has lived many lifetimes and played the part of many different characters, none of which were safe or pro-active. Her self-destruction was doomed to leave her deceased. This included many roads, including: Heroin addiction, Bulimia, Alcoholism, violent relationships, and even three occasions to which she actually survived short-term death itself. It also included double breast cancer, acute Hepatitis (to which she was heavily medicated for one year) at a time that she was in a domestically violent relationship. Yet despite the odds regarding the post self-loathing, she also became many positive characters too. She is now a practising Martial artist, a Vegan and a Gym instructor by trade and also a Hypnotherapist. This transformation and past experience has fed into Insideout, an emotional collection of poetry for all walks of life. Every person can relate to at least one of the characters she became. Therefore, the point to the poetry is - whoever you are and whatever you are - self-compassion, love and change can be activated. Georgia came to realise from head to the heart that it wasn’t the world that disliked who she was, it was she who disliked who she was. She was awakened to her own negative perception of herself and of the world around her. Insideout is written with the hope that many will see that if she can turn her life around by simply understanding what it is to truly love the self, then so can they.

A handsome ex attorney turned Highway Patrol officer. A beautiful woman in her prime. A famous architect. An FBI agent at the top of his game. The lives of these four people come together in love, deceit, espionage and murder. The story of a boy named Charles. As a child he would put insects and the like in little cages he built. When his father came home he would ask, "Where is the Cager?" the name stuck. He followed in his father's footsteps, attended a university, law school, passed the Bar and joined his father's law firm. He gives up the practice of law to join the California Highway Patrol. The winds were at gale force and the rain was so hard and constant it was almost impossible to see during one of the worse storms in northern California. Cager answered a call to investigate a mountain accident. He couldn't believe it. A boulder had fallen on a car killing the driver instantly. The passenger, a beautiful woman, is barely alive. The oddity of the accident bothered Cager. When the storm subsides he returns to the scene, climbs up the cliff and finds evidence of foul play. The victim, Tobert Tudor, was a world renowed nuclear physicist and biochemist working on top secret synthetic cell- restructuring as well as a new type of explosive. Homeland Security and the FBI become involved and form a Task Force to investigate Tudor's death. Jim Hunt, the FBI agent assigned to the Task Force, uses the vast technical facilities at Quantico to trace backgrounds, travel and bank account information on Tudor's business associates. During the course of the investigation, things start to happen. Cager's house, overlooking the ocean, is ransacked and he is being watched by a man in a small boat. Robert Tudor's wife, Ann, finds her cat crucified on her front door with a note pinned to its body, to give up Tudor's formulas or she would suffer the consequences.The Task Force which includes Cager determines Tudor's death was not an accident but murder. All clues point to possibly someone on the inside of law encorcement.

A handsome ex attorney turned Highway Patrol officer. A beautiful woman in her prime. A famous architect. An FBI agent at the top of his game. The lives of these four people come together in love, deceit, espionage and murder. The story of a boy named Charles. As a child he would put insects and the like in little cages he built. When his father came home he would ask, "Where is the Cager?" the name stuck. He followed in his father's footsteps, attended a university, law school, passed the Bar and joined his father's law firm. He gives up the practice of law to join the California Highway Patrol. The winds were at gale force and the rain was so hard and constant it was almost impossible to see during one of the worse storms in northern California. Cager answered a call to investigate a mountain accident. He couldn't believe it. A boulder had fallen on a car killing the driver instantly. The passenger, a beautiful woman, is barely alive. The oddity of the accident bothered Cager. When the storm subsides he returns to the scene, climbs up the cliff and finds evidence of foul play. The victim, Tobert Tudor, was a world renowed nuclear physicist and biochemist working on top secret synthetic cell- restructuring as well as a new type of explosive. Homeland Security and the FBI become involved and form a Task Force to investigate Tudor's death. Jim Hunt, the FBI agent assigned to the Task Force, uses the vast technical facilities at Quantico to trace backgrounds, travel and bank account information on Tudor's business associates. During the course of the investigation, things start to happen. Cager's house, overlooking the ocean, is ransacked and he is being watched by a man in a small boat. Robert Tudor's wife, Ann, finds her cat crucified on her front door with a note pinned to its body, to give up Tudor's formulas or she would suffer the consequences.The Task Force which includes Cager determines Tudor's death was not an accident but murder. All clues point to possibly someone on the inside of law encorcement.

Redefining Elizabethan Literature examines the new definitions of literature and authorship that emerged in one of the most remarkable decades in English literary history, the 1590s. Georgia Brown analyses the period's obsession with shame as both a literary theme and a conscious authorial position. She explores the related obsession of this generation of authors with fragmentary and marginal forms of expression, such as the epyllion, paradoxical encomium, sonnet sequence, and complaint. Combining recent developments in literary theory with close readings of a wide range of Elizabethan texts, Brown casts new light on the wholesale eroticisation of Elizabethan literary culture, the form and meaning of Englishness, the function of gender and sexuality in establishing literary authority, and the contexts of the works of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser and Sidney. This study will be of great interest to scholars of Renaissance literature as well as cultural history and gender studies.

Redefining Elizabethan Literature examines the new definitions of literature and authorship that emerged in one of the most remarkable decades in English literary history, the 1590s. Georgia Brown analyses the period's obsession with shame as both a literary theme and a conscious authorial position. She explores the related obsession of this generation of authors with fragmentary and marginal forms of expression, such as the epyllion, paradoxical encomium, sonnet sequence, and complaint. Combining developments in literary theory with close readings of a wide range of Elizabethan texts, Brown casts light on the wholesale eroticisation of Elizabethan literary culture, the form and meaning of Englishness, the function of gender and sexuality in establishing literary authority, and the contexts of the works of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser and Sidney. This study will be of great interest to scholars of Renaissance literature as well as cultural history and gender studies.