The Authorial Agency and Narrative Production in Thomas Nashe's prose

The issue of authorial agency in the English Renaissance literary works has been intensely discussed over the last decades. The literary scene in those age required the relationship between author and reader to be re-established. Thomas Nashe who was a talented writer but had no any secure patron in the age produced some unique narrative discourse in his book The Unfortunate Traveller. His brilliant and comic narrative earned him a reputation as the ''English Juvenal'' and drew much interest from the readers in the zenith of the English Renaissance. Ironically such narrative style produced not only some powerful authorial agency but conspicuous ideology. This anaysis should be invaluable to the general public who are interested in the English Renaissance culture and useful to anyone who studies the relationship between authorship and readership in the English Renaissance prose.