Three Marriage Plays: The Wise-Woman of Hogsdon, the English Traveller, the Captives

by Thomas Heywood

British playwright Heywood (1574-1651) explored the institution of marriage with considerable persistence. In these three plays he portrays a young prodigal redeemed by a patient Griselda, a young wife unfaithful to both her husband and her childhood friend, and two innocent girls undertaking adventure and ending up married. The texts are annotated. The spelling and punctuation have been modernized. Distributed in the US by St. Martin's Press. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

282 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1996

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Mandy · Rating 5 out of 5]

_The English Traveller_ is delightful (but kinda sad). It’s really well done; one of my favorite marriage plays of the period.