The gigantic [but lost?] literary output of Thomas Heywood compared to Shakespeare ?
How can it be that in 1633 Thomas Heywood in his epistle to the Reader of his Play "The English Traveller" told us
a) that that play was one among 220 plays (Tragedies/Comedies) he had written ("beeing one reserved amongst two hundred and twenty")
a) that that play was one among 220 plays (Tragedies/Comedies) he had written ("beeing one reserved amongst two hundred and twenty")
b) that he was fully aware of all his publications ("having intelligence therof") even though they appeared "accidentally" [SOED,"a note or mark that may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms "1610]
c) that he never had a great ambition that "his playes" to be read in volumes to beare the title "WORKES" (such as Jonson.) " and
d) that he thought it appropriate that his plays are not anonymous ("thought it not fit that it should passe as filius populi", a bastard without a father) , thus giving each play a "literary father," appearing under different pseudonyms (think of e.g. of Beaumont / Fletcher )