Thomas Lodge remains, nearly four centuries after his death, an ill-defined figure among many illustrious Elizabethans. Although a good deal is known about his multifaceted life, as a literary personality he continues to be a "minor Elizabethan." But his...
Over the years, critics have noted a variety of thematic oppositions in As You Like It: fortune versus nature, country versus court, a view of time "as the medium of decay" versus time "as the medium of fulfillment," "contrary notions of identity," "the conspicuous...