Born : 1558.

Died : 1625.

Son of Sir Thomas Lodge, a Lord Mayor of London.

Educated at Merchant Taylors School and Trinity College, Oxford.

Studied law at Lincoln's Inn, London, in 1578.

His first work (1580) was a pamphlet entitled A Defence of Plays.

He wrote prose romances (Rosalynde, Euphues Golden Legacy, 1590, and A Marguerite of America, 1596), verse romances (eg Scilla's Metamorphosis, 1589, reissued as Glaucus and Scilla, 1610), a sonnet sequence (Phillis, 1593), and a collection of epistles and satires in imitation of the Roman poet Horace, A Fig for Momus (1595).

His most famous work, the romance "Rosalynde", was later used by Shakespeare as the story for As You Like It.

Studied medicine, receiving the degree of M. D. from Oxford University in 1603.



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