Background
Thomas Heywood was born about 1573 in Lincolnshire.
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''Does theology have any relevance to the problem of life and death?'' According to John Heywood Thomas the answer is an unequivocal yes. A largely personal expression of this conviction precedes the argument's exposition, which is then stated first of all quite generally--that nothing human is alien to theology's concern. Three main issues are considered: the unborn life, death as an event in life, and the possibility of global death. The issue of a life before birth is a complex problem, requiring an awareness of philosophical issues as of the empirical factors. The same kind of multifaceted thinking is needed in confronting the issue of death, an inescapable topic for theology. If death is an event in life what does it reveal about the meaning of life? And what of the very human action of the funeral? After a discussion of the complex issues involved the argument returns to the global reference of theology. Two areas of concern are singled out to show that the theologian can offer guidance in debate: the environmental crisis and the threat of nuclear war.
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The most studied of Thomas Heywood's plays, A Woman Killed With Kindness explores the boundaries of marital punishment and the moral weight of mercy. This major new edition of this startling domestic tragedy offers the standard, depth and range associated with all Arden editions. The on-page commentary notes explain the language, references and staging issues posed by the text while the lengthy, illustrated introduction offers a lively overview of the play's historical, performance and critical contexts. This is the ideal edition for study and performance.
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(The most studied of Thomas Heywood's plays, A Woman Kille...)
The most studied of Thomas Heywood's plays, A Woman Killed With Kindness explores the boundaries of marital punishment and the moral weight of mercy. This major new edition of this startling domestic tragedy offers the standard, depth and range associated with all Arden editions. The on-page commentary notes explain the language, references and staging issues posed by the text while the lengthy, illustrated introduction offers a lively overview of the play's historical, performance and critical contexts. This is the ideal edition for study and performance.
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Thomas Heywood was born about 1573 in Lincolnshire.
He attended Cambridge but left without a degree in 1593.
In 1601 Thomas Heywood acquired a share in the acting company of the Earl of Worcester.
In 1633, in the preface to his play The English Traveller (probably written about 1623), he claims to have had "either an entire hand, or at the least a main finger" in 220 plays.
The Four Prentices of London (ca. 1600), A Woman Killed with Kindness (1603), and The Rape of Lucrece (1608) are the most important surviving plays which can be assigned with confidence to his pen.
A Woman Killed with Kindness, one of the finest tragedies of the "bourgeois, " or "domestic, " type, is universally regarded as Heywood's masterpiece.
Heywood throughout preserves sympathy for his heroine without relaxing his high moral tone.
His long and fruitful but unspectacular career came to an end sometime before Aug. 16, 1641, when he was buried in St. James's Church in the Clerkenwell section of London.
He produced such romances as "The Captives" and "A Pleasant Comedy", "Called a Maidenhead" "Well Lost "(both in 1634); such adventure plays as "The Fair Maid of the West" (1631); and seven lord mayor’s pageants, completed between 1631 and 1639. He also wrote masques, mythological cycles, and chronicle plays. The most popular of his history plays, "If You Know Not Me", "You Know Nobody" (1605–06), is about Elizabeth I.
(The most studied of Thomas Heywood's plays, A Woman Kille...)
(The most studied of Thomas Heywood's plays, A Woman Kille...)
(''Does theology have any relevance to the problem of life...)
(The Fair Maid of the West, or a Girl Worth Gold, is a two...)