An Apology for Actors
work by Heywood
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An Apology for Actors (1612) is a work by Thomas Heywood, an English actor and playwright active during the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. The book serves as a defense of actors and their profession, discussing their societal role and dignity since antiquity. It is considered Heywood's most significant prose work and is of interest to students of the period. The term "apology" in this context refers to a defense or justification, a literary form seen in works like Plato's Apology and Montaigne's Apologie de Raimond Sebond.12
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