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Lodge, Thomas

▪ English writer
born c. 1557, London?, Eng.
died 1625, London

      English poet, dramatist, and prose writer whose innovative versatility typified the Elizabethan (Elizabethan literature) age. He is best remembered for the prose romance Rosalynde, the source of William Shakespeare's (Shakespeare, William) As You Like It.

      He was the son of Sir Thomas Lodge, who was lord mayor of London in 1562. The younger Lodge was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and at Trinity College, Oxford, and he studied law at Lincoln's Inn, London, in 1578. Lodge's earliest work was an anonymous pamphlet (c. 1579) in reply to Stephen Gosson's attack on stage plays. His next work, An Alarum Against Usurers (1584), exposed the ways in which moneylenders lured young heirs into extravagance and debt. He then engaged in varied literary activity for a number of years. His Scillaes Metamorphosis (1589), an Ovidian verse fable, is one of the earliest English poems to retell a classical story with imaginative embellishments, and it strongly influenced Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis. Lodge's Phillis (1593) contains amorous sonnets and pastoral eclogues from French and Italian originals. In A Fig for Momus (1595), he introduced classical satires and verse epistles (modeled after those of Juvenal and Horace) into English literature for the first time. Aside from Rosalynde: Euphues Golden Legacie (1590), which provided the plot for Shakespeare's comedy, Lodge's most important romance was A Margarite of America (1596), which combines Senecan motives and Arcadian romance in an improbable love story between a Peruvian prince and a daughter of the king of Muscovy. His other romances are chiefly notable for the fine lyric poems scattered through them. Lodge continued to write moralizing pamphlets such as Wits Miserie, and the Worlds Madnesse (1596), and in 1594 he published two plays: The Wounds of Civill War and (with Robert Greene) A Looking Glasse for London and England.

      To escape poverty Lodge took part in unprofitable freebooting voyages to the Canary Islands in 1588 and to South America in 1591. In 1597 he became a Roman Catholic, and he graduated in medicine from the University of Avignon in 1598. He received another M.D. degree from Oxford in 1602 and thereafter practiced medicine in London and in Brussels, where he took refuge as a recusant following exposure of the Gunpowder Plot (1605). He was back in England by 1612, became a distinguished physician in London, and died there while fighting the plague in 1625. His later works include A Treatise of the Plague (1603) and two major translations: The Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca (1614) and The Famous and Memorable Works of Josephus (1620), both of which went through many editions.

      Much of Lodge's work before 1600 was surreptitious translation, but in this regard he shows a real talent for creative selection and assimilation from classical, French, and Italian sources. His reputation remains based chiefly on his poetry and his romances. Of his pamphlets, Wits Miserie and the Alarum are memorable for their cameos of London life, reminiscent of the writings of Thomas Nashe.

Additional Reading
Charles J. Sisson (ed.), Thomas Lodge and Other Elizabethans (1933, reissued 1966); Wesley D. Rae, Thomas Lodge (1967).

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