“Seven cities warred for Homer being dead, who living had no roof to…” — Thomas Heywood

“Seven cities warred for Homer being dead, who living had no roof to shroud his head.”

On posthumous honour that arrives too late for the living poet · The Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells, 1635

About Thomas Heywood

c. 1574–August 1641

Thomas Heywood, born about 1574 and buried on 16 August 1641, was one of the great working writers of the English Renaissance: a playwright, actor, poet, translator, prose controversialist, civic pageant-maker, and indefatigable observer of London life. He has never possessed the singular cultural monumentality of…

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