Thomas Heywood's play The Rape of Lucretia dates from 1607.

* Thomas Shadwell-The Lancashire Witches ( adapted from Brome and Heywood's The Late Lancashire Witches )

They were creative in terms of special effects: consider these stage directions from Heywood's The Silver Age, written for and acted by the company —

Heywood was born into a poor family in Prestwich, who moved to Manchester after Heywood's father died in 1812.

Born in Manchester, the son of Benjamin Heywood, and educated at Eton College, Heywood joined the family business, Heywood's Bank in the 1840s.

Contemporary press reports, and more recent commentators, have contrasted Heywood's pardon with the fate of his fellow prisoners who were hanged, all lower-deck sailors without wealth or family influence.

He appeared as Carter Heywood's ex-boyfriend who subsequently fell in love with a woman on Spin City, and played a geeky birdwatcher who caught the eye of Jack McFarland on Will & Grace.

The most important American free love journal was Lucifer the Lightbearer ( 1883 – 1907 ) edited by Moses Harman and Lois Waisbrooker but also there existed Ezra Heywood and Angela Heywood's The Word ( 1872 – 1890, 1892 – 1893 ).

The first large scale work where Platus was the chief source was Thomas Heywood's The Silver Age ( 1613 ).

Rolling stock was augmented by Sir Arthur Heywood's Duffield Bank line, following Sir Arthur's death in 1916.

The most important American free love journal was Lucifer the Lightbearer ( 1883 – 1907 ) edited by Moses Harman and Lois Waisbrooker but also there existed Ezra Heywood and Angela Heywood's The Word ( 1872 – 1890, 1892 – 1893 ).

Webster was still writing plays as late as the mid-1620s, but Thomas Heywood's Hierarchie of the Blessed Angels ( licensed 7 November 1634 ) speaks of him in the past tense, implying he was then dead.

Johann Ludwig Tieck called him the " model of a light and rare talent ", and Charles Lamb wrote that he was 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.

As a measure of Heywood's popular standing in the final years of his life, Love's Mistress or the Queen's Masque, a play published in 1636, but performed since 1634, was reported to have been seen by King Charles I and his queen three times in eight days.

Thomas Heywood's two-part play The Iron Age also depicts the Trojan war and the story of Troilus and Cressida, but it is not certain whether his or Shakespeare's play was written first.

Moreover, Wang was privy to details of Neil Heywood's death, and had reportedly attempted to voice his concerns to Bo about alleged poisoning.

They employed prominent playwrights: most of Thomas Heywood's tremendous output was staged there, as were John Webster's The White Devil and The Devil's Law-case, Thomas Dekker's If This Be Not A Good Play, the Devil Is in It, and John Cooke's well-known Greene's Tu Quoque.

The Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier was inaugurated with a little ceremony on October 22, 1913 and opened with its first public performance on the next evening with Heywood's A Woman Killed By Kindness (" Une femme tuée par la douceur "), but the Elizabethan melodrama did not impress the critics and the public remained indifferent.

Although the " kissing of the head " element was used in Heine and even Heywood's production, Wilde's ingenuity was to move it to the play's climax.

The most important American free love journal was Lucifer the Lightbearer ( 1883 – 1907 ) edited by Moses Harman and Lois Waisbrooker, but also there existed Ezra Heywood and Angela Heywood's The Word ( 1872 – 1890, 1892 – 1893 ).

John Heywood's business was continued by his son John and was still in existence in the 1970s.

* John Heywood's Proverbes ( 1546 ) commented that " The moon is made of a greene cheese ", " greene " meaning " not aged ", but was probably being sarcastic.

He conducted himself in a " gallant, unflinching, and devoted manner " as Heywood's second-in-command, until he was killed by a rifleshot in the neck 11 February 1848.

The subsequent journey was prolonged and eventful ; Pandora was wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef, four of Heywood's fellow prisoners were drowned, and Heywood himself was fortunate to survive.

However, in Heywood's case the court recommended mercy, and he was pardoned by King George III.

Heywood's best known plays are his domestic tragedies and comedies ( plays set among the English middle classes ); his masterpiece is generally considered to be A Woman Killed with Kindness ( acted 1603 ; printed 1607 ), a domestic tragedy about an adulterous wife, and a widely admired Plautine farce The English Traveller ( acted approximately 1627 ; printed 15 July 1633 ), which is also known for its informative " Preface ", giving Heywood an opportunity to inform the reader about his prolific creative output.

The date of the burial, 16 August 1641, the only documented date, also appears in a number of reference books as Heywood's death date, although he may actually have died days earlier.

Heywood's list is actually of the Angels of the Four Winds: Uriel ( south ), Michael ( east ), Raphael ( west ) ( serving also a governor of the south, with Uriel ), and Gabriel ( north ).

It is also mentioned peripherally in Thomas Heywood's 1605 play If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody.

Only a minority of the plays of English Renaissance theatre were ever printed ; of Heywood's 220 plays noted above, only about 20 were published in book form.

* January 13-The King's Men perform Heywood's The Rape of Lucrece.

" Mad as a March hare " is a common British English phrase, both now and in Carroll's time, and appears in John Heywood's collection of proverbs published in 1546.

Few details of Heywood's life have been documented with certainty.

Heywood's two-part history plays Edward IV ( printed 1600 ), and If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody, or, The Troubles of Queene Elizabeth ( 1605 and 1606 ) concern, respectively, The Wars of the Roses and the life of the Queen contrasted with that of the preeminent merchant and financier Thomas Gresham.

His best known long essay is An Apology for Actors, a moderately-toned and reasonable reply to Puritan attacks on the stage, which contains a wealth of detailed information on the actors and acting conditions of Heywood's day.

It is in the " Epistle to the Printer " in this 1612 work that Heywood writes about William Jaggard's appropriation of two of Heywood's poems for the same year's edition of The Passionate Pilgrim.

In John Heywood's Play Called the Four PP ( 1530s ), the Pardoner, a Renaissance update of Chaucer's Pardoner, offers his companions the opportunity to kiss " a slipper / Of one of the Seven Sleepers ," but the relic is presented as absurdly as the Pardoner's other offerings, which include " the great-toe of the Trinity " and " a buttock-bone of Pentecost.

Youth development has played an important role in Heywood's cricketing ethos.

Heywood's popular, expansionist dramas were compatible with Southampton's maritime and colonial interests.

In Thomas Heywood's Hierarchy of Blessed Angels ( 1635 ), Uriel is described as an Angel of the Earth.

* the earliest copy of John Heywood's The Play of the Weather, published in 1533 shortly after being performed for Henry VIII.

Two texts, an adaptation of Thomas Heywood's A Woman Killed With Kindness and Molière's L ' Amour médecin, which were to appear as the first bill of the new season, served as the basis of their text work and their improvisations.