Thomas Heywood's The Iron Age

by Thomas Heywood, Arlene W. Weiner, Stephen Orgel (Editor)

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311 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 1979

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

[Matt · Rating 3 out of 5]

You know what Heywood's good at? Making Paris look like a jerk. It's almost like all the early modern dramatists decided they hated the Trojan War and couldn't take it seriously. I mean, Troilus & Cressida, which I love, is hardly nice to it... And here, we get all the painful rhyming couplets of the 18th Century coupled with a sort of lackluster retelling of the story. Honestly, one of my three stars is here only because the woodcut on the title page was awesome.