- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press (1 Jan 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1853311065
- ISBN-13: 978-1853311062
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.6 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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A book on Thomas Lodge's Rosalynd.
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Renaissance romance,
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This review is from: Rosalynd (Renaissance Texts & Studies) (Paperback)
Thomas Lodge is another of those Renaissance writers who has disappeared from the general canon and so is only known to scholars and - possibly - students. But in his day he was a popular author associated with the 'university wits' (he had an MA from Oxford) and the Inns of Court along with Robert Greene and, later, Marlowe, Nashe and Donne. Like Philip Sidney he wrote a defence of poetry and literature in response to Stephen Gosson's The Schoole of Abuse, and was also involved in writing plays for the Globe and other London playhouses.
Today Lodge is best known for his erotic epyllion, in imitation of stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses: A New Verse Translation (Penguin Classics) Scillaes Metamorphosis (1580) which might have influenced Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis. Lodge's romances are a genre that we don't really recognise now: part rudimentary novel with inset poems, part fairy-tale, they are sometimes deemed 'difficult' to read by students because they confound our expectations. But in Lodge's own day, this genre was a hugely popular one and Rosalyde itself owes debts to texts such as Sidney's two Arcadias, as well as a direct allegiance to John Lyly's Euphues as referenced in the title. Shakespeare adopted and adapted Roslynde for his "As You Like it" (Arden Shakespeare.Third Series), something frequently done in an age which didn't recognise plagiarism and which didn't put a premium on 'originality' as we do. So whether you're interested in how Shakespeare worked with his sources, or you're just keen to read beyond the canonical Renaissance writers, this is well worth a read. Bright, witty, clever and funny, this opens a window into the Renaissance literary world.
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