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Thomas Heywood (c.1573-1641) was one of the most prolific and influential dramatists of the Elizabethan, Jacobean, and early Caroline theatre. This modern edition of his works establishes him as a major and seminal contributor to early modern English drama, poetry and prose. Volume 3 presents the five
Age plays that he wrote to delight and teach.
List of contents
- General Introduction
- The Golden Age
- The Silver Age
- The Brazen Age
- The Iron Age, Part I
- The Iron Age, Part II
About the author
Barry Gaines attended Rice University and the University of Wisconsin. He taught early modern drama with a specialty in Shakespeare and Bibliography at the University of Tennessee for nine years and the University of New Mexico for thirty-two, winning teaching awards at each. He was Associate Editor of Shakespeare Studies for eighteen years, hosted the Shakespeare Association of America general meeting in Albuquerque and directed the National Endowment for the Humanities Institute 'Teaching Shakespeare Workshop' at the Folger Shakespeare Library. He has taught as a Fulbright Exchange Scholar in Germany and England and travelled extensively attending plays. Gaines has also acted at the Albuquerque Little Theatre and reviewed theatre for the Albuquerque Journal for fifteen years. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of New Mexico.
Grace Ioppolo, Professor Emerita at the University of Reading and the General Editor of OUP's The Collected Works of Thomas Heywood, is the Founder and Director of The Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project (https://henslowe-alleyn.org.uk/). She has edited plays by Shakespeare, Middleton, and Fletcher for OUP, Norton, and the Malone Society and has published monographs and articles on early modern drama, theatre history, manuscript studies, and the History of the Book.
Summary
Thomas Heywood (c.1573-1641) was one of the most prolific and influential dramatists of the Elizabethan, Jacobean, and early Caroline theatre. This modern edition of his works establishes him as a major and seminal contributor to early modern English drama, poetry and prose. Volume 3 presents the five Age plays that he wrote to delight and teach.
