Excerpt from Was Thomas Lodge an Actor?: An Exposition Touching the Social Status of the Playwright in the Time of Queen Elizabeth In the eighth volume of Dodsley's Select Collection of Old Plays, 1825, edited by Mr. J. P. Collier, an incorrect quotation is'made from Cosson's Plays Confuted in Five Actions, in which Lodge is called a vagrant person visited by the heavy hand of God; and it is thence inferred by the editor that Lodge had been an actor. He again repeats the alleged quotation in his Introduction to the reprint ...
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Excerpt from Was Thomas Lodge an Actor?: An Exposition Touching the Social Status of the Playwright in the Time of Queen Elizabeth In the eighth volume of Dodsley's Select Collection of Old Plays, 1825, edited by Mr. J. P. Collier, an incorrect quotation is'made from Cosson's Plays Confuted in Five Actions, in which Lodge is called a vagrant person visited by the heavy hand of God; and it is thence inferred by the editor that Lodge had been an actor. He again repeats the alleged quotation in his Introduction to the reprint of Gosson's School of Abuse which he superintended for the Shakespeare Society in 1841. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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