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Heywood

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Heywood, town (1991 pop. 29,639), Rochdale metropolitan district, NW England, in the Greater Manchester metropolitan area. Heywood's products include cotton goods, metal goods, boilers, industrial inks, carpets, paper, rope, and machinery.
Heywood1
1. John. ?1497--?1580, English dramatist, noted for his comic interludes
2. Thomas. ?1574--1641, English dramatist, noted esp for his domestic drama A Woman Killed with Kindness (1607)
Heywood2
a town in NW England, in Rochdale unitary authority, Greater Manchester, near Bury. Pop.: 28 024 (2001))


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Thomas Heywood, a sort of journalist before the days of newspapers, produced an enormous amount of work in various literary forms; in the drama he claimed to have had 'an entire hand, or at least a maine finger' in no less than two hundred and twenty plays.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
After a vociferous consultation, which was, at times, deafened by bursts of savage joy, they again separated, filling the air with the name of a foe, whose body, Heywood could collect from their expressions, they hoped to find concealed in some crevice of the island.
The Last of The Mohicans by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
" = a possibly deliberate misquotation of "It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone" from John Heywood, "Proverbes", Part II, Chapter VIII (1546)}
Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
 
 
 
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