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Thomas Heywood

1574 - 1641

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Thomas Heywood (early 1570s – 16 August 1641) was an English playwright, actor, and author. His main contributions were to late Elizabethan and early Jacobean theatre. He is best known for his masterpiece A Woman Killed with Kindness, a domestic tragedy, which was first performed in 1603 at the Rose Theatre by the Worcester's Men company. He was a prolific writer, claiming to have had "an entire hand or at least a maine finger in two hundred and twenty plays", although only a fraction of his work has survived. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Heywood is the 6,010th most popular writer (up from 6,245th in 2019), the 5,019th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 5,281st in 2019) and the 547th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Thomas Heywood ranks 6,010 out of 7,302. Before him are Ľudmila Podjavorinská, Jiang Rong, Qaysin Quli, Harry Turtledove, Walker Percy, and Alexander Afinogenov. After him are Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Marie Pujmanová, Jean Rouaud, Carol Shields, Marilyn Ferguson, and François Nourissier.

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Among people born in 1574, Thomas Heywood ranks 17. Before him are Qin Liangyu, Elisabeth of Lorraine, İbrahim Peçevi, Dorothea Maria of Anhalt, Frederick IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and John Wilbye.  Among people deceased in 1641, Thomas Heywood ranks 19. Before him are Franciscus Gomarus, Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt, Hedwig of Denmark, Adam van Noort, Pedro Teixeira, and Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford. After him is John Suckling.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Heywood ranks 5,020 out of 8,785. Before him are Randolph Caldecott (1846), Hugh N. Kennedy (1947), John Henry Davies (1864), Edward Lhuyd (1660), Victor Johnson (1883), and Raymond Leppard (1927). After him are C. H. Dodd (1884), Ronald Drever (1931), Susan Hampshire (1937), Vashti Bunyan (1945), Conor Coady (1993), and Thomas Warton (1728).

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Among writers born in United Kingdom, Thomas Heywood ranks 547. Before him are John Gardner (1926), Anthony Shaffer (1926), Iolo Morganwg (1747), Dan Houser (1974), Antonia Fraser (1932), and Thomas Campbell (1777). After him are Thomas Warton (1728), Edmund Gosse (1849), Ali Smith (1962), Darren Shan (1972), Frances Wright (1795), and Julian Symons (1912).

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