Thomas Heywood - Final Two Decades - Primary Literary Output

Primary Literary Output

  • The Royall King and the Loyall Subject (acted between 1615 and 1618; printed 1637)
  • the two parts of The Fair Maid of the West or a Girle Worth Gold (both parts printed 1631)
  • The Fayre Maid of the Exchange (printed anonymously 1607), a play doubtfully attributed to Heywood
  • The Late Lancashire Witches (1634), written with Richard Brome and prompted by an actual trial in the preceding year
  • A Mayden-Head Well Lost (1634)
  • A Challenge for Beautie (1636)
  • The Wise-Woman of Hogsdon (printed 1638), the witchcraft in this case being matter for comedy, not seriously treated as in the Lancashire play
  • Fortune by Land and Sea (printed 1655), with William Rowley
  • The five plays called respectively The Golden Age, The Silver Age, The Brazen Age and The Iron Age (the last in two parts), dated 1611, 1613, 1613 and 1632, are series of classical stories strung together with no particular connection except that "old Homer" introduces the performers of each act in turn
  • Loves Maistresse or The Queens Masque (printed 1636), the story of Cupid and Psyche as told by Apuleius
  • The Tragedy of the Rape of Lucrece (1608), which chronicles the rise and fall of Tarquin as presented by a "merry lord", Valerius, who lightens the gloom of the situation by singing comic songs
  • A series of pageants, most of them devised for the City of London, or its guilds, by Heywood, printed in 1637
  • In volume iv of his Collection of Old English Plays (1885), A. H. Bullen printed for the first time a comedy by Heywood, The Captives, or The Lost Recovered (licensed 1624), and in volume ii of the same series, Dicke of Devonshire, which he tentatively assigns to the same hand
  • Troia Britannica, or Great Britain's Troy (1609), a poem in seventeen cantos "intermixed with many pleasant poetical tales" and "concluding with an universal chronicle from the creation until the present time"
  • An Apology for Actors, Containing Three Brief Treatises (1612), edited for the Shakespeare Society in 1841
  • Gynaikeion or Nine Books of Various History Concerning Women (1624)
  • England's Elizabeth, Her Life and Troubles During Her Minority from Time Cradle to the Crown (1631)
  • The Hierarchy of the Blessed Angels (1635), a didactic poem in nine books;
  • A Woman Killed with Kindness
  • Pleasant Dialogue, and Dramas Selected Out of Lucian, etc. (1637)
  • The Life of Merlin surnamed Ambrosius (1641)

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