The satirical playwright, musician and courtier John Heywood lived through, and managed to survive, the politically and religiously turbulent reigns of Henry VIII and his three successors. Suzannah Lipscomb finds out how with Professor Greg Walker.
Playwright and musician John Heywood was a devout Catholic humanist and biting satirist - married to Sir Thomas Moore's niece - who managed to survive life as a courtier through the Catholic and Protestant regimes of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I.
In this edition of Not Just the Tudors, Suzannah Lipscomb finds out more about this fascinating figure with Professor Greg Walker, author of the first full scholarly biography of John Heywood, whose life was a case study of the role of comedy in a period of religious and political extremism.
