Thomas Heywood: 'A Woman Killed with Kindness'

1962 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 415
Author(s):  
Kenneth Palmer ◽  
R. W. Van Fossen
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Heywood

‘Sir Thomas Heywood the Parson’ and Donne's Catholic Background

1980 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-327
Author(s):  
Dennis Flynn
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Heywood ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Contrary Evidence

Jonn Donne's modern biographers have had to redress an imbalance in the laconic account of his Catholic background given by his earliest biographer, Izaak Walton. For example, Baird D. Whitlock introduced the story that the priest Thomas Heywood, Donne's grand-uncle, was ‘executed’ for his faith in 1574, when Donne was two years old. Whitlock found this story in A. W. Reed's Early Tudor Drama, where Reed presumed that ‘Sir Thomas Heywood the Parson’, as he is named in his brother Richard's will, was also the subject of a note inscribed on another document relating to Richard Heywood: ‘ye 14th of June 1574, a fryar who was akin was executed’. Though this note is the only evidence of Thomas Heywood's purported execution, the story has been accepted by Donne's biographers since Whitlock, despite various contrary evidence.

Thomas Heywood in the House of the Wise-woman

2009 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 391-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel R. Gibbons
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Heywood ◽  
Wise Woman

THOMAS HEYWOOD AND THE “ANNALIA DUBRENSIA”, 1636

1962 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-70
Author(s):  
F. D. A. BURNS
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Heywood

The Fair Maid of the West by Thomas Heywood

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 436-439
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Klett
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Heywood ◽  
The West

Ovid's ‘Lucretia’

1953 ◽  
Vol 22 (66) ◽  
pp. 107-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. G. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Benjamin Britten ◽  
Thomas Heywood ◽  
Roman Art ◽  
Confessio Amantis ◽  
Popular Imagination ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Tragic Drama ◽  
Rape Of Lucrece

Every country has its heroes, legendary or historical, who are remembered for some noble action that has caught the popular imagination and made their names immortal. Among the Romans, just as Fabricius was the type of incorruptibility, Decius Mus of devotion to country, Regulus of faith to the pledged word, so the name of Lucretia was proverbial for chastity. The story of her suicide after she had been violated by Sextus Tarquin is recounted by the historians Livy, Dionysius, and Diodorus, and alluded to by many Roman poets and prose-writers. But apart from such allusions, it is curious that of all the Roman poets whose works have come down to us none save Ovid has treated her story at any length; moreover, there is apparently no representation of her among the extant remains of Roman art. To painters and poets of later times, however, she made a strong appeal. In the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge, for example, there is the famous painting by Titian; and in our own literature Chaucer sang the praise of ‘the verray wyf, the verray trewe Lucresse’ in his Legend of Good Women, Gower included her in the seventh book of his Confessio Amantis, Shakespeare in his youth composed that highly coloured arabesque The Rape of Lucrece, Thomas Heywood turned the story into a tragic drama, and most recently Benjamin Britten has made it the subject of an opera.That Ovid found in Lucretia an attractive figure is evident from the detailed manner in which he treats her story in the second book of his Fasti.

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