Summers Last Will and Testament

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | 281 words | Copyright

Summers Last Will and Testament, a play by T. Nashe, published 1600. It is framed by the jocular comments of Will Summers, Henry VIII's jester (who died c.1560), and is an allegorical pageant in which Summer, personified as a dying old man, decides to whom to leave his riches.

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