The proverbs and epigrams were reprinted by the Spenser Society in 1867, the _Dialogue on Wit and Folly_ by the Percy Society from an MS. in the British Museum in 1846, with an account of Heywood by F. W. Fairholt, and there are modern reprints of _Johan Johan_ (Chiswick Press, 1819), _The Foure PP_. (Dodsley's _Old Plays_, 1825, 1874), and _The Pardoner and the Frere_ (Dodsley's _Old Plays_, 1874). _The Spider and the Flie_ was edited by A. W. Ward for the Spenser Society in 1894. For notes and strictures on that edition see J. Haber in _Litterärhistorische Forschungen_, vol. xv. (1900). See also A. W. Pollard's introduction to the reprint of the _Play of the Wether_ and _Johan Johan in Representative English Comedies_ (1903), and _The Dramatic Writings of John Heywood_, edited by John S. Farmer for the Early English Drama Society (1905).
His son, JASPER HEYWOOD (1535-1598), who translated into English three plays of Seneca, the _Troas_ (1559), the _Thyestes_ (1560) and _Hercules Furens_ (1561), was a fellow of Merton College, Oxford, but was compelled to resign from that society in 1558. In the same year he was elected a fellow of All Souls College, but, refusing to conform to the changes in religion at the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth, he gave up his fellowship and went to Rome, where he was received into the Society of Jesus. For seventeen years he was professor of moral theology and controversy in the Jesuit College at Dillingen, Bavaria. In 1581 he was sent to England as superior of the Jesuit mission, but his leniency in that position led to his recall. He was on his way back to the Continent when a violent storm drove him back to the English coast. He was arrested on the charge of being a priest, but, although extraordinary efforts were made to induce him to abjure his opinions, he remained firm. He was condemned to perpetual exile on pain of death, and died at Naples on the 9th of January 1598. His translations of Seneca were supplemented by other plays contributed by Alexander Neville, Thomas Nuce, John Studley and Thomas Newton. Newton collected these translations in one volume, _Seneca, his tenne tragedies translated into Englysh_ (1581). The importance of this work in the development of English drama can hardly be over-estimated.