#disworkmanship

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An apology for actors (1612)

by Thomas Heywood

printed by Nicholas Okes

In An Apology for Actors, printed by Nicholas Okes, shown here, Heywood complained about the errors in Troia Britanica, blaming Jaggard’s “disworkmanship.” Heywood also recounted another “manifest iniury done me in that worke, by taking the two Epistles of Paris to Helen, and Helen to Paris, and printing them in a lesse volume, vnder the name of another”—meaning that Heywood’s poems had been published in The Passionate Pilgrim and attributed to Shakespeare. As a result, Heywood fears this “may put the world in opinion I might steale them from him.” [read more]