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H LODGE

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 860 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LODGE  . C . See also:LODGE, T . See also:Inn, where, as in the other Inns of See also:Court, a love of letters and a See also:crop of debts and difficulties were alike wont to See also:spring up in 'a kindly See also:soil . Lodge, apparently in disregard of the wishes of his See also:family, speedily showed his inclination towards the looser ways of See also:life and the lighter aspects of literature . When the penitent See also:Stephen See also:Gosson had (in 1579) published his Schoole of Abuse, Lodge took up the See also:glove in his See also:Defence of See also:Poetry, See also:Music and See also:Stage Plays (1579 or 1580; reprinted for the See also:Shakespeare Society, 1853), which shows a certain See also:restraint, though neither deficient in force of invective nor backward in display of erudition . The pamphlet was prohibited, but appears to have been circulated privately . It was answered by Gosson in his Playes Confuted in Five Actions; and Lodge retorted with his Alarum Against Usurers (1584, reprinted ib.)—a " See also:tract for the times " which no doubt was in some measure indebted to the author's See also:personal experience . In the same See also:year he produced the first See also:tale written by him on his own See also:account in See also:prose and See also:verse, The Delectable See also:History of Forbonius and Prisceria, both published and reprinted with the Alarum . From 1587 onwards he seems to have made a See also:series of attempts as a playwright, though most of those attributed to him are mainly conjectural . That he ever became an actor is improbable in itself, and See also:Collier's conclusion to that effect rested on the two assumptions that the " Lodge " of See also:Henslowe's M.S. was a player and that his name was See also:Thomas, neither of which is supported by the See also:text (see C . M .

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Ingleby, Was Thomas Lodge an Actor ? 1868) . Having, in the spirit of his See also:age , " tried the waves " with See also:Captain See also:Clarke in his expedition to See also:Terceira and the Canaries, Lodge in 1591 made a voyage with Thomas See also:Cavendish to See also:Brazil and the Straits of See also:Magellan, returning See also:home by 1593 . During the Canaries expedition, to beguile the tedium of his voyage, he composed his prose tale of Rosalynde, Euphues See also:Golden Legacie, which, printed in 159o, afterwards furnished the See also:story of Shakespeare's As You Like It . The novel, which in its turn owes some, though no very considerable, See also:debt to the See also:medieval Tale of Gamelyn (unwarrantably appended to the fragmentary Cookes Tale in certain See also:MSS. of See also:Chaucer's See also:works), is written in the euphuistic manner, but decidedly attractive both by its See also:plot and by the situations arising from it . It has been frequently reprinted . Before starting on his second expedition he had published an See also:historical See also:romance, The History of See also:Robert, Second See also:Duke of See also:Normandy, surnamed Robert the Divell; and he See also:left behind him for publication See also:Cat/taros, See also:Diogenes in his Singularity, a discourse on the immorality of See also:Athens (See also:London) . Both appeared in 1591 . Another romance in the manner of See also:Lyly, Euphues See also:Shadow, the Battaile of the Sences (1592), appeared while Lodge was still on his travels . His second historical romance, the Life and See also:Death of See also:William Longbeard (1593), was more successful than the first . Lodge also brought back with him from the new See also:world A MargariteofAmerica (published J96), a romance of the same description interspersed with many lyrics . Already in 1589 Lodge had given to the world a See also:volume of poems bearing the See also:title of the See also:chief among them, Scillaes See also:Metamorphosis, Enterlaced with the Unfortunate Love of See also:Glaucus, more briefly known as Claw-us and Scilla (reprinted with See also:preface by S .

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Singer in 1819) . To this tale Shakespeare was possibly indebted for the See also:idea of See also:Venus and See also:Adonis . Some readers would perhaps be prepared to give up this and much else of Lodge's sugared verse, See also:fine though much of it is in quality, largely borrowed from other writers, See also:French and See also:Italian in particular, in See also:exchange for the lost Sailor's Kalendar, in which he must in one way or another have recounted his See also:sea adventures . If Lodge, as has been supposed, was the Alcon in See also:Colin Clout's come Home Again, it may have been the See also:influence of See also:Spenser which led to the See also:composition of Phillis, a volume of sonnets, in which the See also:voice of nature seems only now and then to become audible, published with the narrative poem, The Complaynte of Elstred, in 1593 . A Fig for See also:Momus, on the strength of which he has been called the earliest See also:English satirist, and which contains eclogues addressed to See also:Daniel and others, an See also:epistle addressed to See also:Drayton, and other pieces, appeared in 1595 . Lodge's ascertained dramatic See also:work is small in quantity .

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