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Thomas Heywood
Thomas Heywood

Thomas Heywood (1575-1641) was an English playwright and poet. His works, encompassing drama, poetry, and prose, had a profound impact on 17th-century English literature. more

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“Any satirist writing a futuristic novel who had imagined a President Reagan during the Eisenhower years would have been accused of perpetrating a piece of crude, contemptible, adolescent, anti-American wickedness, when, in fact, he would have succeeded, as prophetic sentry, where Orwell failed.”

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