Thomas Lodge
Lodge was a versatile Elizabethan writer whose pastoral romance Rosalynde provided the source for Shakespeare's As You Like It. He combined romance, pastoral, and moral instruction in graceful prose.
Works
- RosalyndePastoral romance of exiled lovers finding refuge in forest with comic subplot
- A Margarite of AmericaProse romance featuring exploration, shipwreck, and discovery in exotic colonial settings
- The Wounds of Civil WarTragic drama depicting the chaos and suffering inflicted by the English civil wars