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| Name: |
Thomas Heywood | | Birth Date: |
c. 1573 | | Death Date: |
August 16, 1641 | | Place of Birth: |
Lincolnshire, England | | Place of Death: |
London, England | | Nationality: |
English | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
playwright |
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Biography of Thomas Heywood
416 words, approx. 1 pages
 The English playwright Thomas Heywood (ca.1573-1641) worked successfully in a wide range of dramatic forms. A competent craftsman, he lacked the brilliance of the greater Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists. Thomas Heywood, in all probability the son...
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Biography of Thomas Heywood
16,958 words, approx. 57 pages
 Thomas Heywood's life and work were judiciously described about a quarter of a century ago by A. M. Clark. Born in Rothwell or Ashby, Lincolnshire, to the Reverend Robert and Elizabeth Heywood in 1573 or 1574, Heywood came from a Cheshire family that...



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Thomas Heywood Quotes
352 words, approx. 1 pages
 Thomas Heywood (early 1570s— 16 August 1641 ) was a prominent English playwright, actor and miscellaneous author whose peak period of activity falls between late Elizabethan and early Jacobean theatre . Sourced The world ’s a theatre, the earth a...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Thomas Heywood Information
1,447 words, approx. 5 pages
 Thomas Heywood (early 1570s—16 August 1641) was a prominent English playwright, actor and miscellaneous author whose peak period of activity falls between late Elizabethan and early Jacobean theatre. Few details of Heywood's life have been...



Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Theodora A. Jankowski
15,536 words, approx. 52 pages
 In the following essay, Jankowski explores the role of Heywood's texts in validating the relationship between mercantile interests and the English monarchy in the development of industry and trade at home and abroad.
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Critical Essay by Nancy A. Gutierrez
11,162 words, approx. 37 pages
 In the following essay, Gutierrez contends that Heywood's play is not a tragedy but a melodrama with an open-ended conclusion that provides no solution to the problem of adultery.
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Critical Essay by Joseph Courtland
10,225 words, approx. 34 pages
 In the following excerpt, Courtland examines Heywood's play within the context of Elizabethan colonialism.


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