Girle worth Gold_ (two parts, printed 1631); _The Fayre Maid of the Exchange_ (printed anonymously 1607); _The Late Lancashire Witches_ (1634), written with Richard Brome, and prompted by an actual trial in the preceding year; _A Pleasant Comedy, called A Mayden-Head well lost_ (1634); _A Challenge for Beautie_ (1636); _The Wise-Woman of Hogsdon_ (printed 1638), the witchcraft in this case being matter for comedy, not seriously treated as in the Lancashire play; and _Fortune by Land and Sea_ (printed 1655), with William Rowley. The five plays called respectively _The Golden_, _The Silver_, _The Brazen_ and _The Iron Age_ (the last in two parts), dated 1611, 1613, 1613, 1632, are series of classical stories strung together with no particular connexion except that "old Homer" introduces the performers of each act in turn. _Loves Maistresse; Or, The Queens Masque_ (printed 1636) is on the story of Cupid and Psyche as told by Apuleius; and the tragedy of the _Rape of Lucrece_ (1608) is varied by a "merry lord," Valerius, who lightens the gloom of the situation by singing comic songs. A series of pageants, most of them devised for the City of London, or its guilds, by Heywood, were printed in 1637. In vol. iv. of his _Collection of Old English Plays_ (1885), Mr A. H. Bullen printed for the first time a comedy by Heywood, _The Captives, or The Lost Recovered_ (licensed 1624), and in vol. ii. of the same series, _Dicke of Devonshire_, which he tentatively assigns to the same hand. Besides his dramatic works, twelve of which were reprinted by the "Shakespeare Society," and were published by Mr John Pearson in a complete edition of six vols. with notes and illustrations in 1874, he was the author of _Troia Britannica, or Great Britain's Troy_ (1609), a poem in seventeen cantos "intermixed with many pleasant poetical tales" and "concluding with an universal chronicle from the creation until the present time"; _An Apology for Actors, containing three brief treatises_ (1612) edited for the Shakespeare Society in 1841; [Greek: Gynaikeion] _or nine books of various history concerning women_ (1624); _England's Elizabeth, her Life and Troubles during her minority from the Cradle to the Crown_ (1631); _The Hierarchy of the Blessed Angels_ (1635), a didactic poem in nine books; _Pleasant Dialogue, and Dramas selected out of Lucian_, &c. (1637; ed. W. Bang, Louvain, 1903); and _The Life of Merlin surnamed Ambrosius_ (1641). See A. W. Ward, _History of English Dram. Lit._ ii. 550 seq. (1899); the same author's Introduction to _A woman killed with kindness_ ("Temple Dramatists," 1897); J. A. Symonds in the Introduction to _Thomas Heywood_ in the "Mermaid" series (new issue, 1903).