WRITER

Thomas Heywood

1574 - 1641

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Thomas Heywood (early 1570s – 16 August 1641) was an English playwright, actor, and author. His main contributions were to late Elizabethan and early Jacobean theatre. He is best known for his masterpiece A Woman Killed with Kindness, a domestic tragedy, which was first performed in 1603 at the Rose Theatre by the Worcester's Men company. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Heywood has received more than 150,421 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Thomas Heywood is the 6,245th most popular writer (down from 5,778th in 2019), the 5,280th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,107th in 2019) and the 599th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 150k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.42

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Thomas Heywood
English drama
1800
If you know not me you know nobody
Drama
1633
A woman killed with kindness
English drama, British and irish drama (dramatic works by one author)
1897
The Dramatic Works of Thomas Heywood
2018
An apology for actors
Theater, Moral and ethical aspects of Theater, Early works to 1800
1841
The dramatic works of Thomas Heywood
1850

Page views of Thomas Heywoods by language

Over the past year Thomas Heywood has had the most page views in the with 18,566 views, followed by Persian (1,214), and Russian (1,012). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Swedish (53.62%), Esperanto (46.23%), and Armenian (34.15%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Thomas Heywood ranks 6,245 out of 7,302. Before him are Dan Abnett, William Empson, Barbara Pym, Stig Claesson, Helen Bannerman, and Alfred Domett. After him are Swami Rama, Andrew Vachss, Ferenc Juhász, Donald A. Wollheim, Mikael Niemi, and Cheryl Strayed.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1574, Thomas Heywood ranks 17. Before him are Feng Menglong, Elisabeth of Lorraine, Dorothea Maria of Anhalt, Frederick IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, İbrahim Peçevi, and John Wilbye.  Among people deceased in 1641, Thomas Heywood ranks 19. Before him are Franciscus Gomarus, Pau Claris i Casademunt, Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt, Adam van Noort, Pedro Teixeira, and Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford. After him is John Suckling.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Heywood ranks 5,280 out of 8,785. Before him are Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (1993), Nigel Short (1965), Helen Bannerman (1862), Fiona May (1969), Alfred Domett (1811), and Nicholas Galitzine (1994). After him are Jo Cox (1974), Jonny Wilkinson (1979), John Byrne (1950), Bill Hoskyns (1931), John Le Mesurier (1912), and Trevor Brooking (1948).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Thomas Heywood ranks 599. Before him are Ronald Firbank (1886), Dan Abnett (1965), William Empson (1906), Barbara Pym (1913), Helen Bannerman (1862), and Alfred Domett (1811). After him are R. C. Sherriff (1896), Dorothy Richardson (1873), Derek Taylor (1932), George Farquhar (1677), Howard Jacobson (1942), and Dorothy Wordsworth (1771).

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