Author:Thomas Heywood

Thomas Heywood
(1574–1641)

Thomas Heywood

Works

Dramatic

• Iupiter and Ganimede
• The Four Prentices of London, with the Conquest of Jerusalem (1615)
• Edward IV., part I (1600)
• Edward IV., part II (1605)
• If you know not me, you know nobody; or, the Troubles of Queen Elizabeth, Part I (1605)
• If you know not me, you know nobody; or, the Troubles of Queen Elizabeth, Part II (1606)
• The Royal King and the Loyal Subject (1637)
• A Woman Killed with Kindness (1607)
• The Fair Maid of the Exchange (1607)
• The Rape of Lucrece (1608)
• The Golden Age (1611)
• The Silver Age (1613)
• The Brazen Age (1613)
• The Fair Maid of the West; or, A Girl with Gold, part I (1631)
• The Fair Maid of the West; or, A Girl with Gold, part II (1631)
• The Captives; or, The Lost Recovered (1885)
• The Iron Age, part I (1632)
• The Iron Age, part II (1632)
• The English Traveller (1633)
• A Maidenhead well Lost (1634)
• Love's Mistress; or, the Queen's Masque (1636)
• A Challenge for Beauty (1636)
• The Wise Woman of Hogsdon (1638)
• Fortune by Land and Sea (1655), co-authored with William Rowley
• The Late Lancashire Witches (1634), co-authored with Richard Brome

Miscellaneous

• Translation of Sallust (1608)
• Troia Britannica, or Great Britain's Troy (1609)
• An Apology for Actors,’ in three books (1612)
• A Funeral Elegy on the Death of Prince Henry (1613)
• A Marriage Triumph on the Nuptials of the Prince Palatine and the Princess Elizabeth (1613)
• Γυναικείον; or, Nine Books of Various History concerning Women, inscribed by the Names of the Nine Muses (1624)
• England's Elizabeth: her Life and Troubles during her Minority from the Cradle to the Crown (1631)
• Eromena; or, Love and Revenge (1632)
• "Epistle Dedicatory" to The Jew of Malta (1633), by Christopher Marlowe
• The Hierarchy of the Blessed Angels (1635)
• A True Description of His Majesty's Royal Ship, built this year at Woolwich in Kent (1637)
• Pleasant Dialogues and Dramas, selected out of Lucian, Erasmus, Textor, Ovid, &c., with Emblems from J. Catsius, and a variety of Prologues and Epilogues, Elegies, Epitaphs, Epithalamions, Epigrams, and sundry other Fancies (1637)
• The Exemplary Lives and Memorable Acts of Nine the most Worthy Women of the World: three Jews, three Gentiles, three Christians (1640)
• The Life of Ambrosius Merlin (1641)

Works about Heywood

• "Thomas Heywood," in The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets (pp. 70−72), by Gerard Langbaine, London: Thomas Leigh (1698)
• "Heywood, Thomas," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 11) (1880)
• "Thomas Heywood" (1882), a sonnet by Algernon Charles Swinburne
• "Heywood, Thomas (d.1650?)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Heywood, Thomas," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Heywood, Thomas," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)