Penniless? Thomas Nashe and precarity in historical perspective

托马斯·纳什(1567-C.1601)是一位具有挑战性的作家，因为(1)他的作品具有强烈的主题和典故，这是他的作品以伊丽莎白时代的物质和社会政治背景为基础并假定其知识的；(2)他同时倾向于怪诞，由此他夸大和扭曲了他所描述的世界；(3)他的句法复杂性。该项目将以纳什的《皮尔斯身无分文》(1592)为重点文本，与创意行业的自由职业者合作，制作九幅钢笔画、一本杂志、一场精心设计的表演、一段视频和一系列六个播客，这些播客将为非专业观众解读纳什的作品，并将他与21世纪不稳定工作(在这里定义为失业、不稳定工作和低于个人技能的工作)的经历联系起来。该项目还将收集和策划关于年轻人和成熟学生在21世纪的就业经历的口头证词。这些视听资源将被用来促使就业服务专业人员、教育工作者、雇主、面临挑战的就业环境的年轻人和成熟学生及其家人和朋友在有组织的活动(包括由英语协会主办的网络研讨会)和更远的地方(通过这些资源的后续在线生活)讨论不稳定的就业经历。这些资源还将突出纳什“非戏剧性”作品的戏剧性技巧和潜力，他对不同形式和技术(例如印刷)的创新使用，利用网络的重要性，以及纳什对其艺术的潜在短暂性的关注。此外，通过博客帖子和在线圆桌会议，该项目将反思与非专业人士合作解释和传播一位“困难”作家的作品的过程。

Thomas Nashe (1567-c.1601) is a challenging writer because of (1) the intense topicality and allusiveness of his works, which ground his writings in - and assume knowledge of - the material and socio-political contexts of his Elizabethan world; (2) his simultaneous tendency towards the grotesque, whereby he exaggerates and distorts the world he describes; and (3) his syntactical complexity.Using Nashe's Pierce Penniless (1592) as a focus text, the project will work with freelancers in the creative industries to produce nine pen-and-ink drawings, a zine, a devised performance, a video, and a series of six podcasts which will interpret Nashe's writings for non-specialist audiences and draw out his relevance to twenty-first-century experiences of precarious employment (here defined as unemployment, insecure employment, and employment in a job below one's skill-set). The project will also collect and curate oral testimonies about the employment experiences of young people and mature students in the twenty-first century.These visual and audio resources will be used to prompt discussions - amongst careers service professionals, educators, employers, young people and mature students facing a challenging employment environment, and their families and friends - about the experience of precarious employment, at both structured events (including a webinar hosted by the English Association) and beyond (via the subsequent life of these resources on-line). These resources will also highlight the dramatic techniques and potential of Nashe's 'non-dramatic' works, his innovative use of different forms and technologies (e.g. print), the importance of utilising networks, and Nashe's concern with the potential ephemerality of his art.In addition, via blogposts and an on-line round-table talk, the project will reflect on the process of collaborating with non-specialists to interpret and disseminate the works of a 'difficult' writer.