The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/Thomas Lodge

by Gerard Langbaine

Thomas Lodge.

This Author we find was a Doctor of Physick, in the Time of Queen Elizabeth, who, during his Study at Cambridge, writ several pieces of Poetry; among the rest, Two Plays.

A Looking-Glaß for London and England, a Tragedy, 4 to. 1598. One Green joined with our Author towards compleating this Play, which is founded on the Story of Jonas and the Ninevites, in the Holy Scripture.

The Wounds of Civil War; or, The Tragedies of Marius and Scylla. Plot from Plutarch in vit. Mar. & Silla; see also Aurelius Victor, Eutropius, Vell. Paterculus, Salustius, and T. Livius.