John Heywood
Heywood, John - hāˈwood, 1497?–1580?, English dramatist. He was employed at the courts of Henry VIII and Mary I as a singer, musician, and playwright. At the accession of Elizabeth I in 1564 Heywood, who was a Roman Catholic, fled to Belgium, where he stayed for the rest of his life. Important in the development of English comedy, Heywood was the most famous writer of the Read More...
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John Heywood's "Play of the Wether": A Study in Early Tudor Drama
by Kenneth Walter Cameron. 72 pgs.
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The Background of John Heywood's "Witty and Witless": A Study in Early Tudor Drama
by Kenneth Walter Cameron. 48 pgs.
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Dramatic Images of Kingship in Heywood and Bale, in Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
by Peter Happe. 14 pgs.
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A Companion to the Medieval Theatre ("Heywood, John (1497-c. 1579)" begins on p. 160)
by Ronald W. Vince. 422 pgs.
