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Thomas Lodge (1558–1625)
Lodge, Thomas. An English poet, dramatist, and story-writer; born at London, about 1558; died there, 1625. He wrote: ‘A Defense of Poetry, Music, and Stage-Plays’ (1579); ‘Alarum Against Usurers’ (1584); the story of ‘Rosalynde, Euphues’ Golden Legacie’ (1590), the basis of Shakespeare’s ‘As You Like It’; the play ‘Looking-Glasse for London and England’; ‘History of Robert the Divell’ (1591); ‘Life and Death of William Longbeard’ (1593); ‘Phillis’ (1593), a collection of lyrical pieces. (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).