John Heywood

John Heywood Criticism

• Introduction
• Principal Works
• Essays
  • Oratory, Rhetoric and Logic in the Writings of John Heywood
  • The True Source of John Heywood's ‘Johan Johan’
  • The Date of John Heywood's The Spider and the Flie
  • Experiment and Variety in John Heywood's Plays
  • Is John Heywood's Play of the Weather really about the Weather?
  • Introduction: Old English Comedies
  • The Pardoner and the Friar as Reformation Polemic
  • John Heywood and The Four PP
  • Formalizing English Farce: Johan Johan and its French Connection
  • The Use of Folk Tales in the Works of John Heywood
  • Formation of the Christian Self in The Four P.P.
  • Heywood's Indulgent Pardoner
  • Life and Works, and The Plays
  • The Frailty of Human Judgment as the Unifying Theme of The Four PP
  • The Humanism of Acting: John Heywood's The Foure PP
  • Royal Throne, Royal Bed: John Heywood and Spectacle
  • Lucian's Satire of Philosophers in Heywood's Play of the Wether
  • Dramatic Images of Kingship in Heywood and Bale
• Further Reading