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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 persona...
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In this excerpt, Robinson favorably compares Lodge's work to that of his contemporaries.
… It is no contradiction of the denial of fruitfulness in the case of Lilly to say that two other...
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In the following excerpt, Rae provides background for the literary dispute between Lodge and Stephen Gosson, and explains the nature of Elizabethan imitation.
… [Before] discussing Lodge'...
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In the following excerpt, Davis discusses Lodge's emphasis on action within the pastoral romance form.
… Whereas Sidney showed increasing concern to make explicit the intellectual conten...
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In this excerpt, Helgerson claims that Lodge, like many of the characters he created, was torn between opposing postures of rebellion and submission.
Diogenes, the satiric moralist in Thomas Lodge�...
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In the following article, Larson claims that Rosalynde was intended as a guide to appropriate behavior for the bourgeois and aristocratic readers of Lodge's time.
Smirking over an example of fe...
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In the following essay, Roberts discusses A Margarite of America as Lodge's entry into a contemporary debate on the nature of the New World.
Thomas Lodge recorded the unusual circumstances surr...
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Thomas Lodge
Critical Essay by John Mackinnon Robertson
