15 Facts About Thomas Lodge

The Lodge family continued some form of association with those manors, and it has been suggested that this was part of the inspiration of Lodge junior's literary output.

Thomas Lodge was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and Trinity College, Oxford; taking his BA in 1577 and MA in 1581.

Thomas Lodge, disregarding the wishes of his family, took up literature.

Thomas Lodge probably never became an actor, and John Payne Collier's conclusion to that effect rested on the two assumptions that the "Lodge" of Philip Henslowe's manuscript was a player and that his name was Thomas, neither of which is supported by the text.

Thomas Lodge was abroad on urgent private affairs of one kind and another in 1616.

Thomas Lodge while practising medicine in London lived first in Warwick Lane, afterwards in Lambert Hill, and finally in Old Fish Street in the parish of St Mary Magdalen.

Thomas Lodge died in Old Fish Street in 1625, apparently in the Roman Catholic communion.

Thomas Lodge may have been buried in St Mary Magdalen Old Fish Street, demolished in 1893, but documentary evidence is lacking.

Thomas Lodge had already written The Wounds of Civil War, a good second-rate piece in the half-chronicle fashion of its age.

Darren Freebury-Jones has advanced arguments that Thomas Lodge co-wrote Selimus with Greene.

That Thomas Lodge is the "Young Juvenal" of Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit is no longer a generally accepted hypothesis.

Thomas Lodge brought back with him from the new world A Margarite of America, a romance of the same description interspersed with many lyrics.

Already in 1589 Thomas Lodge had given to the world a volume of poems bearing the title of the chief among them, Scillaes Metamorphosis, Enterlaced with the Unfortunate Love of Glaucus, more briefly known as Glaucus and Scilla.

Thomas Lodge seems to have married his first wife Joan in or before 1583, when, "impressed with the uncertainty of human life", he made a will.

Thomas Lodge married secondly Jane, widow of Solomon Aldred, at one time a Roman Catholic agent of Francis Walsingham in Rome.