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LODGE, THOMAS (c. 1558–1625)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 861 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LODGE, See also:THOMAS (c. 1558–1625) , See also:English dramatist and See also:miscellaneous writer, was See also:born about 1558 at See also:West See also:Ham. He was the second son of See also:Sir Thomas Lodge, who was See also:lord See also:mayor of See also:London in 1562–1563. He was educated at See also:Merchant Taylors' School and Trinity See also:College, See also:Oxford; taking his B.A degree in 1577 and that of M.A. in 1581. In 1578 he entered See also:Lincoln's See also:play of A Looking Glasse for London and See also:England (printed in 1594). He had already written The Wounds of Civile See also:War. Lively set forth in the Tragedies of See also:Marius and Scilla (produced perhaps as See also:early as 1587, and published in 1594), a See also:good second-See also:rate piece in the See also:half-See also:chronicle See also:fashion of its See also:age. Mr F. G. Fleay thinks there were grounds for assigning to Lodge Mucedorus and Amadine, played by the See also:Queen's Men about 1588, a See also:share with See also:Robert See also:Greene in See also:George a Greene, the Pinner of See also:Wakefield, and in See also:Shakespeare's 2nd See also:part of See also:Henry VI.; he also regards him as at least part-author of The True Chronicle of See also:King Leir and his three Daughters (1594); and The Troublesome Raigne of See also:John, King of England (c. 1588); in the See also:case of two other plays he allowed the assignation to Lodge to be purely conjectural. That Lodge is the " See also:Young See also:Juvenal " of Greene's Groatsworth of Wit is no longer a generally accepted See also:hypothesis.

In the latter part of his See also:

life—possibly about 1596, when he published his Wits Miserie and the See also:World's Madnesse, which is dated from See also:Low See also:Leyton in See also:Essex, and the religious See also:tract Prosopopeia (if, as seems probable, it was his), in which he repents him of his " lewd lines " of other days—he became a See also:Catholic and engaged in the practice of See also:medicine, for which See also:Wood says he qualified himself by a degree at See also:Avignon in 1600. Two years afterwards he received the degree of M.D. from Oxford University. His See also:works henceforth have a sober See also:cast, comprising See also:translations of See also:Josephus (1602), of See also:Seneca (1614), a Learned See also:Summary of Du Bartas's Divine Sepmaine (1625 and 1637), besides a See also:Treatise of the See also:Plague (1603), and a popular See also:manual, which remained unpublished, on Domestic Medicine. Early in 16o6 he seems to have See also:left England, to See also:escape the persecution then directed against the Catholics; and a See also:letter from him dated 1610 thanks the English See also:ambassador in See also:Paris for enabling him to return in safety. He was abroad on urgent private affairs of one See also:kind and another in 1616. From this See also:time to his See also:death in 1625 nothing further concerning him remains to be noted. Lodge's works, with the exception of his translations, have been reprinted for the Hunterian See also:Club with an See also:introductory See also:essay by Mr See also:Edmund See also:Gosse. This See also:preface was reprinted in Mr Gosse's Seventeenth See also:Century Studies (1883). Of Rosalynde there are numerous See also:modern See also:editions. See also J. J. See also:Jusserand, English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare (Eng. trans., 1890) ; F.

G. Fleay, See also:

Biographical Chronicle of the English See also:Drama (vol. ii., 1891). (A. W.

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