the stage, although the Dulwich records make it clear that he had relations with Henslowe, who had in Jan. 1598 to satisfy the claims which Richard Topping, a tailor, had made against him before three successive Lord Chamberlains, as Lodge's security for a long-standing debt (Greg,
Henslowe Papers, 44, 172). Lodge himself was then once more beyond the seas. One of the documents was printed by Collier, Memoirs of Alleyn, 45, with forged interpolations intended to represent Lodge as an actor, for which there is no other evidence. Subsequently Lodge took a medical degree at Avignon, was incorporated at Oxford in 1602, and obtained some reputation as a physician. He also became a Catholic, and had again to leave the country for recusancy, but was allowed to return in Jan. 1610 (cf. F. P. Wilson in M. L. R. ix. 99). About 1619 he was engaged in legal proceedings with Alleyn, and for a time practised in the Low Countries, returning to London before his death in 1625. Small, 50, refutes the attempts of Fleay, i. 363, and Penniman, War, 55, 85, to identify him with Fungoso in E. M. O. and Asotus in Cynthia's Revels. Fleay, ii. 158, 352, adds Churms and Philomusus in the anonymous Wily Beguiled and Return from Parnassus.
Collection 1878-82. E. Gosse, The Works of Thomas Lodge (Hunterian Club). [Introduction reprinted in E. Gosse, Seventeenth Century Studies (1883).] Dissertations: D. Laing, L.'s Defence of Poetry, Music, and Stage Plays (1853, Sh. Soc.); C. M. Ingleby, Was T. L. an Actor? (1868) and T. L. and the Stage (1885, 6 N. Q. xi, 107, 415); R. Carl, Ueber T. L.'s Leben und Werke (1887, Anglia, x. 235); E. C. Richard, Ueber T. L.'s Leben und Werke (1887, Leipzig diss.).
The Wounds of Civil War. c. 1588
S. R. 1594, May 24. 'A booke intituled the woundes of Civill warre lively sett forthe in the true Tragedies of Marius and Scilla.' John Danter (Arber, ii. 650). 1594. The Wounds of Ciuill War. Liuely set forth in the true Tragedies of Marius and Scilla. As it hath beene publiquely plaide in London, by the Right Honourable the Lord high Admirall his Seruants. Written by Thomas Lodge Gent. John Danter.
Editions in Dodsley^{3, 4} (1825-75) and by J. D. Wilson (1910, M. S. R.). The play contains a clear imitation of Marlowe's Tamburlaine in the chariot drawn by four Moors of Act III, and both Fleay, ii. 49, and Ward, i. 416, think that it was written shortly after its model, although not on very convincing grounds. No performance of it is recorded in Henslowe's diary, which suggests a date well before 1592.
A Looking Glass for London and England, c. 1590 With Robert Greene (q.v.).
Doubtful Plays
Lodge's hand has been sought in An Alarum for London, Contention of York and Lancaster, George a Greene, Leire, Mucedorus, Selimus,
