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Thomas Heywood was a prolific writer. Here is a more complete bibliography of his works:
- Plays
- Tragedies
- A Woman Killed with Kindness (c. 1603), a domestic tragedy
- The Rape of Lucrece (1608)
- Comedies
- How a Man May Choose a Good Wife from a Bad (1602)
- The Wise Woman of Hoxton (performed c. 1604; printed 1634)
- The Captives (licensed 1624)
- A Maidenhead Well Lost (performed and published 1634)
- The Late Lancashire Witches (1634), written in collaboration with Richard Brome
- Romances
- The Four Prentices of London (performed c. 1592; published 1615), a romantic drama
- The Royal King and Loyal Subject (performed c. 1615-18; printed 1637)
- The Fair Maid of the West Parts One and Two (both printed 1631), a romantic drama
- A Challenge for Beauty
- The English Traveler (performed c. 1627; printed 1633)
- Fortune by Land and Sea (printed 1655), written in collaboration with William Rowley
- Chronicle plays
- If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody Parts One and Two
- Edward IV Parts One and Two
- The Golden Age (1611)
- The Silver Age (1613)
- The Brazen Age (1613)
- The Iron Age, Part One and Part Two (1632)
- Attributed to Heywood
- The Fair Maid of the Exchange (printed anonymously in 1607), domestic drama doubtfully attributed to Heywood
- Dick of Devonshire
- A Cure for a Cuckold
- A New Wonder, a Woman Never Vexed
- Appius and Virginia
- Swetnam the Woman-Hater
- The Thracian Wonder
- SALLUST the Conspiracy of Catiline and the War of Jugurtha (Translated into English ANNO 1608)
- Masques and pageants
- Love's Mistress or The Queens Masque (printed 1636), the story of Cupid and Psyche as told by Apuleius
- A series of pageants, most of them devised for the City of London, or its guilds, by Heywood, printed in 1637
- Tragedies
- Poetry
- Troia Britannica, or Great Britain's Troy (1609), a poem in seventeen cantos "intermixed with many pleasant poetical tales" and "concluding with an universal chronicle from the creation until the present time"
- The Hierarchy of the Blessed Angels (1635), a didactic poem in nine books
- Pleasant Dialogue, and Dramas Selected Out of Lucian, etc. (1637)
- The Conspiracie of Cateline [sic] and Warre of Jugurth [sic], translations of Sallust (1608).
- Prose
- An Apology for Actors, Containing Three Brief Treatises (1612), edited for the Shakespeare Society in 1841
- Gynaikeion or Nine Books of Various History Concerning Women (1624)
- England's Elizabeth, Her Life and Troubles During Her Minority from Time Cradle to the Crown (1631)
- The Life of Merlin, surnamed Ambrosius; his Prophecies and Predictions Interpreted, and their Truth Made Good by our English Annals: Being a Chronographical History of all the Kings and Memorable Passages of this Kingdom, from Brute to the reign of King Charles (1641)
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