Heywood, Thomas
Heywood, Thomas ( c 1573 – 1641 ),dramatist, a Lincolnshire man, and a student at Cambridge. He was writing for Henslowe 's Admiral's Men in 1596 , and later became a leading dramatist of Queen Anne's and Lady Elizabeth's Men at the Red Bull and Cockpit theatres. He claimed to have written over 200 plays, many of which are lost; his chief strength lay in domestic drama. His best plays are A Woman Killed with Kindness (acted 1603 , printed 1607 ), The Fair Maid of the West (printed 1631 ), and The English Traveller (printed 1633 ). His other chief plays were The Four Prentices of London (produced c. 1600 , printed 1615 ), ridiculed in Beaumont's Knight of the Burning Pestle ( ?1607 ); Edward IV (two parts, 1599 ); The Rape of Lucrece ( 1608 ); The Royal King and the Loyal Subject (printed 1637 ); The Wise Woman of Hogsdon...
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