16th/17th-century English playwright, actor, and author
For other uses, see Thomas Heywood (disambiguation).
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Title page from A Pleasant Comedy, Called a Maidenhead Well Lost, 1634
Thomas Heywood (early 1570s – 16 August 1641) was an English playwright, actor, and author. His main contributions were to late Elizabethan and early Jacobean theatre. He is best known for his masterpiece A Woman Killed with Kindness, a domestic tragedy, which was first performed in 1603 at the Rose Theatre by the Worcester's Men company.[1] He was a prolific writer, claiming to have had "an entire hand or at least a maine finger in two hundred and twenty plays", although only a fraction of his work has survived.
^Gurr (1992, 243), Massai (2002, xi), McLuskie (1994, 91), and Thomson (1998, 486). The play was first printed in 1607.
ThomasHeywood (early 1570s – 16 August 1641) was an English playwright, actor, and author. His main contributions were to late Elizabethan and early Jacobean...
Heywood, son of Reverend Henry Robinson, fifth son of the first Baronet, was Bishop of Ely. Sir Benjamin Heywood, 1st Baronet (1793–1865) Sir Thomas Percival...
William Congreve • Thomas Dekker • John Dryden I • John Dryden II • George Farquhar • John Ford • Robert Greene • ThomasHeywood • Ben Jonson I • Ben...
into obscurity until 1773 when Thomas Hawkins, an early editor of The Spanish Tragedy, discovered that ThomasHeywood, in his Apologie for Actors (1612)...
Noble Grecians and Romans Compared Together, in the translation made by Sir Thomas North in 1579. Shakespeare's historical plays focus on only a small part...
project. Billy Heywood, the 12-year-old son of widowed Jenny, is a Little League Baseball player. Billy's paternal grandfather, ThomasHeywood, owns the Minnesota...
fiction and elaborates on Apuleius' story in a modern way. In 1634, ThomasHeywood turned the tale of Cupid and Psyche into a masque for the court of Charles...
expense. The foundation of the Royal Exchange is the background of ThomasHeywood's play: If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody part 2, in which a Lord extols...
of Thomas Percival, the son of Nathaniel Heywood and Ann Percival, the brother to ThomasHeywood and James Heywood, and the nephew to Samuel Heywood. He...
Glapthorne Thomas Goffe Arthur Golding Robert Greene Fulke Greville Matthew Gwinne William Haughton Walter Hawkesworth Mary Herbert ThomasHeywoodThomas Hughes...
Christianity portal Reverend ThomasHeywood Masters, CBE (9 April 1865 – 1 September 1939) was an Anglican priest. Masters was born in 1865, and educated...
early 17th-century stage play, a tragedy by John Webster (and perhaps ThomasHeywood). It is the third and least famous of his tragedies, after The White...
author of Sir Thomas More, on which he is believed to have collaborated with Henry Chettle, ThomasHeywood, William Shakespeare, and Thomas Dekker. He was...
The Second Part of the Iron Age, the final play in the Ages series by ThomasHeywood Pyrrhus is a leading character in Andromaque (1667), a play by Jean...
Jonson himself, Thomas Middleton, and John Marston, though many others also contributed to its development, including ThomasHeywood, Thomas Dekker, John...
King School, formerly King Low HeywoodThomas, is a private, co-educational day school for pre-kindergarten through grade 12 in Stamford, Connecticut....
also mentioned in the poem "Appius and Virginia" by John Webster and ThomasHeywood, which includes the following lines: Two fair, but ladies most infortunate...
Virginia, probably written with ThomasHeywood, is of uncertain date. Westward Ho (1603–4) Northward Ho (1605) Sir Thomas Wyatt (1607) The White Devil (1612)...
1617). Co-written with Thomas Middleton. Fortune by Land and Sea (performed c. 1607; printed 1655). Co-written with ThomasHeywood. The Maid in the Mill...
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