Ioannes Heywood

Inter annos 1529 et 1545 musicus et choregus fuit apud aulam regis Henrici VIII;^[2] eo tempore fuit socius et amicus Thomae More.^[3] Anno 1544 cum aliis contra archiepiscopum Cranmerum coniuravit; ultimo supplicio damnatus, die 26 Iunii 1544 nomine John Heywode, late of London, alias of Northmymmes, Herts. absolutus, errorem suum recantavit ad crucem Sancti Pauli Londiniensem die 6 Iulii.^[4]

Filios genuit Iasper (qui et ille scriptor fuit) atque Ellizeum, filiam Elizabetham (quae mater fuit poetae Ioannis Donne). Eduardo VI rege, Heywood rursus ad aulam regiam accessit. Ibi Maria regnante Elizabethque in regnum adducta remansit ludosque scaenicos docuit, sed ante annum 1570 ut "Papista" vel Catholicus ex Anglia cum filiis fugerat; in collegio Iesuitarum Antverpiae octogenarius anno 1576 admissus est. Dicitur in Mechelen in Belgia mortuus esse. De Heywood aliisque scriptoribus has triadas composuit Gabriel Harvey:

Tria vividissima Britannorum ingenia, Chaucerus, Morus, Juellus; quibus addo tres florentissimas indoles, Heivodum, Sidneium, Spencerum.

– Gabriel Harvey, Marginalia, ed. Smith, p. 122

De florilegio proverbiorum a Ioanne Heywood congesso sic censuit Ioannes Florius:

The Greekes and Latines thanke Erasmus, and our Englishmen make much of Heywood: for proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofes, the purities, the elegances, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language.

– Ioannes Florio, Second Fruites, "To the Reader"

Graeci et Latini Erasmo gratias agunt, Heywoodum autem Angli nostri magnificant. Proverbia enim sunt medullae, proprietates, probationes, puritates, elegantiae cuiusque linguae; sunt sententiae communissimae necnon laudatissimae.

Carmina et proverbia

• The Dialogue of Wit and Folly. Londinii: Thomas Berthlet, 1546
• Epigrams

Ludi scaenici

• A Mery Play betwene Johan Johan the Husbande, Tyb his Wyfe, and Sir Jhan the Priest Londinii: W. Rastell, die 12 Februarii 1533
• The Mery Play between the Pardoner and the Frere, the Curate and Neybour Pratte Londinii: W. Rastell, die 5 Aprilis 1533
• The Play called the foure PP. Londinii, c. 1530
• The Play of the Wether, a new and mery interlude of all maner of Wethers Londinii: W. Rastell, 1533
• A Play of Love. Londinii: W. Rastell, 1534

Editiones operum

• J. S. Farmer, ed., The dramatic writings of John Heywood, comprising: The pardoner and the friar; The four P.P.; John the husband, Tyb his wife, and Sir John the priest; Play of the weather; Play of love; Dialogue concerning witty and witless; Note-book and word-list. Londinii, 1905 Textus apud archive.org
• J. S. Farmer, ed., The proverbs, epigrams, and miscellanies of John Heywood, comprising: A dialogue of the effectual proverbs in the English tongue concerning marriages; First hundred epigrams; Three hundred epigrams on three hundred proverbs; The fifth hundred epigrams; A sixth hundred epigrams; Miscellanies; Ballads; Note-book and word-lists. Londinii, 1906 Textus apud archive.org

Historica et critica

• Robert W. Bolwell, The Life and Works of John Heywood. Londinii, 1921
• Thornton S. Graves, "The Heywood Circle and the Reformation" in Modern Philology vol. 10 (1913) pp. 553-572
• Thornton S. Graves, "On the Reputation of John Heywood" in Modern Philology vol. 21 (1923) pp. 209-213
• A. W. Reed, John Heywood and his Friends. Londinii, 1917

Aliae encyclopaediae

• Jasper and John Heywood in The Catholic Encyclopedia: an international work of reference (Novi Eboraci: Appleton, 1907–1914) (Anglice)

• Staging the Henrician Court^{[nexus deficit]} (de aula Henrici VIII in scaenis ostentata)
• "John Heywood apud TheatreHistory.com