BIBLIOGRAPHY

Kolin, Philip C. “Recent Studies in John Heywood.” English Literary Renaissance 13, No. 1 (Winter 1983): 113-23.

Detailed annotated bibliography of scholarly essays on Heywood's works.

BIOGRAPHY

Bolwell, Robert W. The Life and Works of John Heywood, New York: Columbia University Press, 1921, 188 p.

Full-length study of Heywood's life and principal works.

CRITICISM

Cameron, Kenneth Walter. The Background of John Heywood's “Witty and Witless”: A Study in Early Tudor Drama, Raleigh, N. C.: The Thistle Press, 1941, 46 p.

Argues that Witty and Witless was influenced by the More Circle.

———. John Heywood's “Play of the Wether”: A Study in Early Tudor Drama. Raleigh, N. C.: The Thistle Press, 1941, 65 p.

Contends that The Play of the Weather is written in support of the rule of Henry VIII.

De la Bère, Rupert. John Heywood: Entertainer, London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1937, 272 p.

Biographical introduction and critical assessment of Witty and Witless, The Pardoner and the Friar, The Four PP, and Johan Johan.

Farmer, John S. Introduction to The Four P.P. / The Pardoner & the Friar by John Heywood, edited by John S. Farmer, pp. 5-10. London: Gibbings & Co., 1906.

Provides general background about the life of Heywood and investigates the thematic concerns of The Four PP and The Pardoner and the Friar, two plays that satirize elements in the Catholic Church.

Habenicht, Rudolph E. Introduction to John Heywood's “A Dialogue of Proverbs,” edited by Rudolph E. Habenicht, pp. i-ix. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963.

Places A Dialogue of Proverbs, which is praised for its ingenious structure, within the sixteenth-century tradition of proverbs.

Johnson, Robert Carl. John Heywood, New York: Twayne Publishers, 1970, 159 p.

Argues that Heywood should be remembered as a Christian humanist.

Maxwell, Ian. French Farce & John Heywood, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1946, 175 p.

Connects all of Heywood's plays to a direct French source or dramatic type.

Young, Karl. “The Influence of French Farce upon the Plays of John Heywood: A Criticism of Wilhelm Swoboda.” In Modern Philology 2 (1904-05): 97-124.

Argues that Johan Johan, The Pardoner and the Friar, and Witty and Witless are all modeled after French farces.

Additional coverage of Heywood's life and career is contained in the following source published by the Gale Group: Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 136.