The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/John Heywood
John Heywood.
Father of the foregoing Poet, and liv’d in the Reigns of Edward the Sixth, and Queeen Mary the First, at North-Mims, in Hertfordshire, was Sir Tho. More’s Neighbour, and in Favour with Queen Mary; after whose Death, flying for Religion, he died at Mechlem, 1556. was one of our first Dramatick Writers; and, tho’ a Papist, severe on their Regular Clergy, as they call ’em.
Four Ps, an Interlude, 4 to.
A Play between John the Husband and Tib his Wife.
A Play between the Pardoner, the Fryar, the Curate and Neighbour Prat.
A Play of Gentleness and Nobility, Two Parts.
A Play of Love.
A Play of the weather, styl’d, A new and very merry Interlude of all manner of Weathers, Fol. 1533.
These being some of the first Plays appeared in our English Language, nothing in Commendation will be expected of them. This Author writ Two or Three Books of Epigrams, Publish’d in 4 to. also a Book called Monumenta Literaria.