biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1558–1625)
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| biography:
| Playwright, romance writer, and poet, probably born in London, UK. He studied at Oxford, then at Lincoln's Inn. Around 1588 he took part in a buccaneering expedition to the Canaries, and wrote the romance, Rosalynde (1590), his best-known work, the source of Shakespeare's As You Like It. Lodge excelled as a lyric poet of amorous verse and songs; his chief volume of verse, Phillis, was issued in 1593. He went on a second freebooting expedition to South America in 1591, and wrote many other works. He is believed to have taken a medical degree at Avignon (1600), and was a physician in Oxford in 1602. |
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