Books by Thomas Heywood

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.

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.