Who is Thomas Heywood

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. 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.

Early years

Few details of Heywood's life have been documented with certainty. Most references indicate that the county of his birth was most likely Lincolnshire, while the year has been variously given as 1570, 1573, 1574 and 1575. It has been speculated t...
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Thomas Heywood Poems

• The Message
  Ye little birds that sit and sing
  Amidst the shady valleys,
  And see how Phillis sweetly walks
  Within her garden-alleys;...
• Matin Song
  Pack, clouds, away! and welcome, day!
  With night we banish sorrow.
  Sweet air, blow soft; mount, lark, aloft
  To give my Love good-morrow!...

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Comments about Thomas Heywood

• James_f_thomas: this was so good that when i got to the end i scrolled back up to the beginning and immediately read the whole thing again
• Jdmccafferty: 'a curtaine lecture' by thomas heywood, london, 1637 apart from the 17thc gender dynamics here, it's interesting to see their night stuff: hourglass, candle, spare pillow/cushion, chamber pot (victoria & albert museum, london)
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• Inertle2960: oh god, oh god! that it were possibleto undo things done; to call back yesterday!that time could turn up her swift and sandy glass,to untell days, and to redeem these hours.,thomas heywood,regret,
• Swsmusic4w: earlier this morning finished act one of the 'fair maid of the west or a girl worth gold' of thomas heywood. contemporary of shakespeare. did not study in university, but on my own, many years ago. sent my great nephew ben johnson's plays he loves shakespeare. and marlow, sent.

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