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Heywood [ˈheɪˌwʊd] n (Placename) a town in NW England, in Rochdale unitary authority, Greater Manchester, near Bury. Pop.: 29 286 (1991) Heywood2 n 1. (Biographies / Heywood, John (?1497-?1580) M, English, THEATRE: dramatist) John. ?1497-?1580, English dramatist, noted for his comic interludes 2. (Biographies / Heywood, Thomas (?1574-1641) M, English, THEATRE: dramatist) Thomas. ?1574-1641, English dramatist, noted esp for his domestic drama A Woman Killed with Kindness (1607) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Thomas Heywood, a sort of journalist before the days of newspapers, produced an enormous amount of work in various literary forms; in the drama he claimed to have had 'an entire hand, or at least a maine finger' in no less than two hundred and twenty plays. After a vociferous consultation, which was, at times, deafened by bursts of savage joy, they again separated, filling the air with the name of a foe, whose body, Heywood could collect from their expressions, they hoped to find concealed in some crevice of the island. " = a possibly deliberate misquotation of "It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone" from John Heywood, "Proverbes", Part II, Chapter VIII (1546)} |
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