According to an attack by Gabriel Harvey, John Lyly and Thomas Nashe have a public reputation for writing plays intended to damage the reputation of those that displease them. Harvey refers to Lyly as 'a professed jester, a hickscorner, a scoff-master, a playmonger, an interluder, once the foil of Oxford, now the stale of London' and Nash as an '[ape] hired, to make a play of you.'
| Name | Event Role(s) | Document Role(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Lyly, John | playwright | |
| Nashe, Thomas | playwright |