Adventures of Master F. J.
work by Gascoigne
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"The Adventures of Master F.J." is a work by George Gascoigne, an English poet and literary innovator of the Renaissance. Published in his collection A Hundreth sundrie Flowres in 1573, it is considered the first original prose narrative of the English Renaissance. Gascoigne was a versatile writer who adapted foreign literary genres into English, influencing later writers like William Shakespeare. He also pioneered English satire and blank verse.1
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