Westward Ho (play)

This article is about Elizabethan stage play. For other uses, see Westward Ho.

Title page of the first edition of Westward Ho (1607)
Title page of the first edition of Westward Ho (1607)

Westward Ho (or Ho!, or Hoe) is an early Jacobean-era stage play, a satire and city comedy by Thomas Dekker and John Webster that was first performed circa 1604. It had an unusual impact in that it inspired Ben Jonson, George Chapman and John Marston to respond to it by writing Eastward Ho, the famously controversial 1605 play that landed Jonson and Chapman in jail.