Lodge, Thomas | John Mackinnon Robertson (essay date 1914)
John Mackinnon Robertson (essay date 1914)
SOURCE: "Prose Fiction," in Elizabethan Literature, Henry Holt and Company; Williams and Norgate, London, 1914, pp. 211-16.
[In this excerpt, Robinson favorably compares Lodge's work to that of his contemporaries.]
… It is no contradiction of the denial of fruitfulness in the case of Lilly to say that two other Elizabethan story-tellers, one of them still readable with pleasure, the other much read in his day, enrolled themselves under his banner. Thomas Lodge's Rosalynde (1590) actually had for sub-title Euphues' Golden Legacy … bequeathed to Philautus' Sons; and Robert Greene certainly aped and parroted Lilly through a dozen prose tales. But Lodge in Rosalynde merely employed Lilly's mannerisms in a new kind of story-telling; whereas in Greene there is no abiding element apart from the sombre interest of his tales of rascality from the underworld in which he dived so...
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