Excerpt from The Play Called the Four Pp The Four PP of the undoubted plays written by john Heywood, the father Qf English comedy and tragedy. The original copy from which this facsimile is taken was published in 154 5 [p], and is now in the British Museum (press-mark C. 34, e. Other editions were printed by pv. Copland, n.d. And by john Allde in I 569. Of yohn Heywood himself it must sufice to say that his life-story, hitherto fragmentary and vague, being re-written (see The Play of the Weather, Tudor Facsimile Texts The most important fact that has in late years come to knowledge, one alstat throws a flood of light on much that has hitherto been vague or inexplicable is the certainty that he was a close connection, by ties and in his social relations, of Sir Thomas More; and that, therefore, he was far from occupying the status of Court fool assigned to him by Sharman, Ward, and others. 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.