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Thomas Heywood

(1574–1641) Playwright Kingdom of England

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Thomas Heywood was a playwright from the Kingdom of England, best known for A woman killed with kindness.

Quick Facts About Thomas Heywood

Born
January 1, 1574
Died
August 16, 1641
Nationality
Kingdom of England
Profession
Playwright
Notable works
A woman killed with kindness

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.

Biography source: Wikipedia

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