Thomas Heywood war ein englischer Schauspieler und Dramatiker, der zu den produktivsten und populärsten Bühnenautoren in der Blütezeit des elisabethanischen und jakobäischen Theaters zählte. Wikipedia
“Seven cities warred for Homer being dead,
Who living had no roofe to shrowd his head.”
Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells (1635). Compare: "Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did 'go from door to door and sing ballads, with a company of boys about him", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 4, Subsect. 6.
“I hold he loves me best that calls me Tom.”
Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells (1635).
“Her that ruled the rost in the kitchen.”
History of Women (ed. 1624), p. 286. Compare: "He ruleth all the roste", John Skelton, Why Come ye not to Courte (published c. 1550), Line 198; "Rule the rost", John Heywood, Proverbs (1546) part i. chap. v.; "Rules the roast", Ben Jonson, George Chapman, Marston: Eastward Ho, act ii. sc. 1.; William Shakespeare, 2 Henry VI. act i. sc. 1.
“The world’s a theatre, the earth a stage
Which God and Nature do with actors fill.”
Apology for Actors, (1612). Compare: "The world's a stage on which all parts are played", Thomas Middleton, A Game of Chess (1624), Act v. Sc. 1.; "All the world ’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players", Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act ii. Sc. 7.
Poem Matin Song http://www.bartleby.com/101/205.html
“With this kiss I wed thee once again.”
Thomas Heywood A Woman Killed with Kindness
A Woman Killed with Kindness (1607), Frank, sc. 16.
