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Thomas Heywood.
16th/17th-century English playwright, actor, and author (1574–1641)
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About Thomas Heywood
Thomas Heywood 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.
Everything about Thomas Heywood →- Occupation
- playwright, writer, stage actor, actor
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of England
- Born
- 1574
- Died
- August 16, 1641, 1641