“I here proclaim myself ever faithful to the first, and never guilty of the second sale.”
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…