Thomas Heywood (died approx. 1641) was an English dramatist and miscellaneous author. Events The Long Parliament passes a series of legislation designed to contain Charles Is absolutist tendencies. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population – Total (mid-2004) – Total (2001 Census) – Density Ranked 1st UK 50. ... A dramatist is an author of dramatic compositions, usually plays. ...

He was born about 1575 in Lincolnshire, and said to have been educated at the University of Cambridge and to have become a fellow of Peterhouse. Heywood is mentioned by Philip Henslowe as having written a book or play for the Lord Admiral's company of actors in October 1596; and by 1598 he was regularly engaged as a player in the company, in which he presumably had a share, as no wages are mentioned. He was also a member of other companies, of Lord Southampton's, the Earl of Derby's and the Earl of Worcester's players (afterwards known as the Queen's Servants). In his preface to The English Traveller (1633) he describes himself as having had "an entire hand or at least a main finger in two hundred ane twenty plays." Of this number, probably considerably increased before the close of his dramatic career, only twenty-three survive. Events February 13 - Henry III of France is crowned at Reims February 14 - Henry III of France marries Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont June 28 - Oda Nobunaga defeats Takeda Katsuyori in the battle of Nagashino, which has been called Japans first modern battle. ... Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs) is a county in the East Midlands of England. ... The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world, with one of the most selective sets of entry requirements in the United Kingdom. ... Full name Peterhouse Motto - Named after St Peters Church (now little St Marys Church) Previous names - Established 1284 Sister College Merton College Master The Lord Wilson of Tillyron Location Trumpington Street Undergraduates 271 Graduates 128 Homepage Boatclub Peterhouse is the oldest college in the University of Cambridge. ... Philip Henslowe (c 1550 - January 6, 1616) was an Elizabethan theatrical entrepreneur. ... Events February 5 - 26 catholics crucified in Nagasaki, Japan. ... Events January 7 - Boris Godunov seizes the throne of Russia following the death of his brother-in-law, Tsar Feodor I. April 13 - Edict of Nantes - Henry IV of France grants French Huguenots equal rights with Catholics. ... Events February 13 - Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition. ...

Heywood wrote for the stage, and protested against the printing of his works, which he said he had no time to revise. Johann Ludwig Tieck called him the "model of a light and rare talent", and his plays, as might be expected from his rate of production, bear little trace of artistic elaboration, Charles Lamb called him a "prose Shakespeare"; Professor Ward, one of Heywood's most sympathetic editors, pointed out that Heywood had a keen eye for dramatic situations and great constructive skill, but his powers of characterization were not on a par with his stagecraft. He delighted in what he called "merry accidents," that is, in coarse, broad farce; his fancy and invention were inexhaustible. It was in the domestic drama of sentiment that he won his most distinctive success. For this he was especially fitted by his genuine tenderness and his freedom from affectation, by the sweetness and gentleness for which Lamb praised him. His masterpiece, A Woman kilde with kindnesse (acted 1603; printed 1607), is a type of the comedie larmoyante, and The English Traveller is a domestic tragedy scarcely inferior to it in pathos and in the elevation of its moral tone. Johann Ludwig Tieck (May 31, 1773 - April 28, 1853) was a German poet, translator, editor, novelist and critic, who was part of the Romantic movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. ... Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 –- 27 July 1834) was an English essayist, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the childrens book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced along with his sister, Mary Lamb. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... A farce is a comedy written for the stage, or a film, which aims to entertain the audience by means of unlikely and extravagant - yet often possible - situations, disguise and mistaken identity, verbal humour of varying degrees of sophistication, which may include puns and sexual innuendo, and a fast-paced... King James I of England/VII of Scotland, the first monarch to rule the Kingdoms of England and Scotland at the same time Events March - Samuel de Champlain, French explorer, sails to Canada March 24 - Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James I of... Events January 20 - Tidal wave swept along the Bristol Channel, killing 2000 people. ...

His first play was probably The Foure Prentises of London: With the Conquest of Jerusalem (printed 1615, but acted some fifteen years earlier). This may have been intended as a burlesque of the old romances, but it is more likely that it was meant seriously to attract the apprentice public to whom it was dedicated, and its popularity was no doubt aimed at in Beaumont and Fletcher's travesty of the City taste in drama in their Knight of the Burning Pestle. The two parts of King Edward the Fourth (printed 1600), and of If you know not me, you know no bodie; Or, The Troubles of Queene Elizabeth (1605 and 1606) are chronicle histories. Events June 2 - First Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France. ... Burlesque was originally a form of art that mocked by imitation, referring to everything from comic sketches to dance routines and usually lampooning the social attitudes of upper classes. ... John Fletcher (playwright) (1579-1625) John Fletcher (Methodist) (1729-1785) ... // Events January January 1 - Scotland adopts January 1st as being New Years Day February February 17 - Giordano Bruno burned at the stake for heresy in Rome July July 2 - Battle of Nieuwpoort: Dutch forces under Maurice of Nassau defeat Spanish forces under Archduke Albert in a battle on the... Events April 13 - Tsar Boris Godunow dies - Feodor II accedes to the throne May 16 - Paul V becomes Pope June 1 - Russian troops in Moscow imprison Feodor II and his mother. ... Events January 27 - The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins ending in their execution on January 31 May 17 - Supporters of Vasili Shusky invade the Kremlin and kill Premier Dmitri December 26 - Shakespeares King Lear performed in court Storm buries a village of St Ismails near...

Other works

• The Royall King, and the Loyall subject (acted c. 1600; printed 1637)
• the two parts of The Fair Maid of The West; Or, A Girle worth Gold (two parts, printed 1631)
• The Fayre Maid of the Exchange (printed anonymously 1607)
• The Late Lancashire Witches (1634), written with Richard Brome, and prompted by an actual trial in the preceding year
• A Pleasant Comedy, called A Mayden-Head Well Lost (1634)
• A Challenge for Beautie (1636)
• The Wise-Woman of Hogsdon (printed 1638), the witchcraft irs 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, 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) is on the story of Cupid and Psyche as told by Apuleius; and the tragedy of the Rape of Lucrece (1608) is varied 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, were printed in 1637. In vol. iv. of his Collection of Old English Plays (1885), Mr AH Bullen printed for the first time a comedy by Heywood, The Captives, or The Lost Recovered (licensed 1624), and in vol. 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;
• Pleasant Dialogue, and Dramas selected out of Lucian, etc. (1637);
• The Life of Merlin surnamed Ambrosius (1641).

William Rowley was an English Jacobean dramatist, best known for works written in collaboration with more successful writers. ... Cupidon (French for Cupid), by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1875 This article is about the Roman god, for other meanings see Cupid (disambiguation). ... Psyche can refer to: In psychology and related fields, the psyche is the entirety of the non-physical aspects of a person. ... Lucius Apuleius (c. ... Valerius was a Roman nomen of the gens Valerii, one of the oldest families of the city. ... A canto is a significant section of a long poem or the highest part in a piece of choral music. ...

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