Question Details

Name the playwright who composed the play A Woman Killed with Kindness.

Options

A

Francis Beaumont

B

Beaumont and Fletcher

C

Thomas Kyd

D

Thomas Heywood

Correct Answer :

Thomas Heywood

Solution :

The correct option is Thomas Heywood.

A Woman Killed with Kindness is a domestic tragedy written by the English playwright Thomas Heywood.
First performed in 1603 and published in 1607, it is widely considered to be Heywood's masterpiece and a masterpiece of the English Renaissance theatre's domestic tragedy genre.

Heywood was a prolific dramatist during the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, famously claiming to have had "an entire hand, or at least a maine finger" in over two hundred and twenty plays.

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