The attention the literary works of Thomas Lodge receive tends to consist of passing glimpses of them, as part of the critical or editorial penumbra around works by other writers who are or once were better known. The most obvious example is the way his romance,
Rosalynde, was transmuted into
As You Like It. The play he wrote with Greene,
A Looking Glass for London and England, was part of the theatre’s disjointed scramble to assimilate Marlowe’s
Tamburlaine.
Phillisjoins in the hectic sonneteering that the print publication of Sidney’s sequence prompted in the 1590’s. As a long-time reader of Du Bartas, in later life he translated Simon Goulart’s lengthy commentary on the French poet’s once immoderately admired hexameral work into English.
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Citation: Booth, Roy. "Scillaes Metamorphosis". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 25 March 2019 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=38931, accessed 21 November 2024.]
