The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill.

Thomas Heywood (/ˈheɪwʊd/; early 1570s – 16 August 1641) was a prominent English playwright actor and author whose peak period of activity falls between late Elizabethan and early Jacobean theatre. Early years
Few details of Heywood's life have been documented with certainty.

Thomas Heywood (/ˈheɪwʊd/; early 1570s – 16 August 1641) was a prominent English playwright actor and author whose peak period of activity falls between late Elizabethan and early Jacobean theatre.