Thomas Lodge, Rosalynde

Roy Booth (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Ed. by J A Roe, University of York
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.03: English Writing and Culture: Renaissance (Elizabethan and Jacobean periods) , 1485-1625.
Vol. editors: William M. Hamlin (Washington State University), J A Roe (University of York), Virginia Mason Vaughan (Clark University), Ema Vyroubalova (Trinity College Dublin)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1590 - 1590

Places

England (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Romance

Resources

Sweetest nut hath sourest rind,
Such a nut is Rosalinde …

… a couplet from an exchange during which an anterior text seems to be volatilised away into literary history, analogous to My Fair Lady (1956) delivering Shaw’s Pygmalion (1913) over into the care of specialists. In a scene of superlative comic dialogue (As You Like it, III ii), Rosalind encounters her earlier, less sophisticated self, ‘Rosalynde’, reflected first in Orlando’s laboured rhyming, and then in Touchstone’s effortless and bawdy parody. Charred pages of Thomas Lodge’s Rosalynde float away on the audience’s laughter.

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Citation: Booth, Roy. "Rosalynde". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 14 May 2019 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=38945, accessed 24 November 2024.]

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