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LODGE, H . C. 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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