Thomas Heywood

London; New York: T.F. Unwin; C. Scribner's Sons, N.D. [late 19th Century]. Unexpurgated ed. Octavo in pale salmon-brown stamped and ornamented polished cloth; xxxiv, 427, [1] pages; frontispiece 19 cm. Minor edge-wear else a very good(+) partly unopened copy in a tight binding. Hardcover.

Mermaid series; Variation: Mermaid series. [series]. ¶ Contents: Thomas Heywood, by J.A. Symonds -- A woman killed with kindness -- The fair maid of the West -- The English traveller -- The wise woman of Hogsdon -- The rape of Lucrece. ¶ "Thomas Heywood (early 1570s – 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."—Wikipedia ¶  Old English Theater; Shakespearean Era. Theater in the Round.