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Thomas Heywood

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Died: 1515 08 16411641

Thomas Heywood 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.
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.

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Thomas Heywood

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Books from Thomas Heywood

A Woman Killed with Kindness

The Fair Maid of the West

A Woman Killed with Kindness and Other Domestic Plays

The First and Second Parts of King Edward IV

Three Elizabethan Domestic Tragedies

If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody, Parts I and II

Women on the Early Modern Stage: A Woman Killed with Kindness, The Tamer Tamed, The Duchess of Malfi, The Witch of Edmonton

The Wise Woman of Hogsdon

An Apology for Actors Containing Three Briefe Treatises. 1 Their Antiquity. 2 Their Ancient Dignity. 3 the True VSE of Their Quality. Written by Thomas Heywood. (1612)

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 2 (Part 1): Love

A Woman Killed With Kindness And The Fair Maid Of The West (1917)

The Rape of Lucrece

The Life Of Merlin: Surnamed Ambrosius

The Dramatic Works of Thomas Heywood: The Golden Age. the Silver Age. the Brazen Age. the First and Second Parts of the Iron Age

The Brazen Age the First Act Containing the Death of the Centaure Nessus the Second the Tragedy O

The Golden Age. the Silver Age. the Brazen Age. the First and Second Parts of the Iron Age

Worke for Cutlers; Or a Merry Dialogue Betweene Sword, Rapier and Dagger: Acted in a Shew in the Famous Universitie of Cambridge 1615 (Classic Reprint)

The Dramatic Works of Thomas Heywood: Memoir. First and Second Parts of King Edward the Fourth. If You Know Not Me, You Know No Body, or the Troubles of Queen Elizabeth. the Second Part of If You Know Not Me

Memoir. First and Second Parts of King Edward the Fourth. 1600. If You Know Not Me, You Know No Body, or the Troubles of Queen Elizabeth. 1605 the Second Part of If You Know Not Me... 1632

WITCHES in Jacobean and Caroline Theatre: The Witch, The Witch of Edmonton and The late Lancashire witches