Bøker av Thomas Heywood

Thomas Heywood (c.1573-1641) was one of the most prolific and influential dramatists of the Elizabethan, Jacobean, and early Caroline theatre. This modern edition of his works establishes him as a major and seminal contributor to early modern English drama, poetry and prose. Volume 3 presents the five Age plays that he wrote to delight and teach.

Thomas Heywood (1574-1641), a professional English actor and one of the most prolific playwrights of the seventeenth century, is most famous for his plays written about contemporary English life. This book recalls typical Elizabethan bourgeois literature, but its primary relationship is with all adventure narratives regardless of their era.

Play script, including biographical notes, textual details and information about the staging of the play.

Two women fight for their emotional survival in a rural wilderness dominated by men, money and an unbending morality.

This unique edition brings together four plays concerned with 'domestic' themes: Arden of Faversham, Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness and The English Traveller, and Dekker, Rowley and Ford's The Witch of Edmonton. Texts are in modern spelling, accompanied by a critical introduction, wide-ranging annotation and bibliography.