Excerpt from The Dramatic Works of Thomas Heywood, Vol. 1 of 6: Now First Collected With Illustrative Notes and a Memoir Thomas Heywood was probably one of the most prolific writers of his own, or of any other age of country; and on that account he has sometimes been not inappropriately termed the English Lope de Vega. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.