Penniless? Thomas Nashe and precarity in historical perspective

托马斯·纳什（1567-c.1601）是一个具有挑战性的作家，因为（1）他的作品具有强烈的时事性和暗示性，这使他的作品建立在他所描述的世界的物质和社会政治背景之上，并假定他对这些背景的了解;（2）他同时倾向于怪诞，从而夸大和扭曲他所描述的世界;以及（3）他的句法复杂性。使用Nashe的Pierce Penniless（1592）作为焦点文本，该项目将与创意产业的自由职业者合作，制作九幅钢笔画，一本杂志，一个设计的表演，一个视频，以及一系列六个播客，将为非专业观众解读纳什的著作，并指出他与二十一世纪世纪不稳定就业经历的相关性（这里的定义是失业、就业不稳定和从事低于自己技能的工作）。该项目还将收集和整理有关青年人和成年学生在21世纪世纪就业经历的口头证词，这些视听资源将用于促进职业服务专业人员、教育工作者、雇主、面临严峻就业环境的青年人和成年学生及其家人和朋友讨论不稳定就业的经历，在两个结构化的事件（包括由英语协会主办的网络研讨会）和超越（通过这些资源的后续生活在线）。这些资源也将突出的戏剧技巧和潜力的纳什的'非戏剧'的作品，他的创新使用不同的形式和技术（例如印刷），利用网络的重要性，以及纳什对他的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，该项目将反映与非专业人士合作解释和传播一位“困难”作家作品的过程。

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.