The English Traveller

by Thomas Heywood

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80 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1973

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

[Katheryn Thompson · Rating 4 out of 5]

An entertaining and intriguing, if somewhat easily resolved, play. Read in Three Marriage Plays, edited by Paul Merchant.