Michael Drayton
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Michael Drayton was an English poet who came to prominence in the Elizabethan era, continuing to write through the reign of James I and into the reign of Charles I. Many of his works consisted of hist
Portrait of Drayton, 1599
Drayton in 1628
Portrait of Drayton by Sylvester Harding
Thomas Lodge
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Thomas Lodge was an English writer and medical practitioner whose life spanned the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.
View of Soulton Hall, a manor on the edge of the Forest of Arden the Lodge family were associated with and lived at before transferring the freehold to 'Old' Sir Rowland Hill
Shakespeare was inspired to write As You Like It by Lodge's work Rosalynde: Euphues Golden Legacy, Found After His Death In His Cell At Silexedra.
1598 edition of A Looking Glasse, for London and Englande
1640 edition of the translation of the works of Josephus