Thomas Heywood (early 1570s–1641) was a prominent English dramatist, actor, and writer of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. He was incredibly prolific, with a claimed involvement in 220 plays, but only a fraction of his work is preserved.
Thomas Heywood (early 1570s–1641) was an English playwright, actor, and author, notable for his contributions to late Elizabethan and early Jacobean theatre. He claimed to have written or contributed to 220 plays, though few survive.
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| Back | 1573 1641 Playwright actor poet and pamphleteer 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. |
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