O'Neill, Daniel
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O'Neill, Daniel (1612–64). Daniel O'Neill was an Ulster protestant and made a living in the 1630s as a volunteer soldier fighting for the Dutch. He returned to England when the
Bishops' wars commenced and was captured at
Newburn in 1640 fighting for the king. He dabbled in royalist conspiracy, was confined by Parliament to the Tower, but made his escape in women's clothes. He joined Charles's army in 1642 and in 1644 was sent to Ireland to raise troops. He returned to fight at
Marston Moor,
Lostwithiel, the second battle of
Newbury, and
Naseby. From 1645 to 1650 he was in Ireland trying to rescue the king's cause. He next joined Charles II in Holland, fought alongside him at
Worcester in 1651, and escaped to The Hague. At the Restoration he became an MP, was given a pension and property, and in 1663 appointed postmaster-general. He died in 1664 causing Charles to regret ‘as honest a man as ever lived and a good servant’. Clarendon admired his dexterity and adroitness.
J. A. Cannon
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Middleton, 'The Revenger's Tragedy,' and crisis literature. (Thomas Middleton)
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 3/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...other scruple, continue to credit Cyril Tourneur. Placing The Revenger's Tragedy...weight it deserves. I In 1891, Tourneur was treated as the presumptive...under his biographical note on Tourneur. While he notes that the play...
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Paris Theatre: June, July 2003
Magazine article from: Western European Stages; 10/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...good mix of classic, modern and contemporary texts. Cyril Tourneur's Revengers Tragedy is rarely performed. Director...signs over their seats gave their character's name. Tourneur's play does not have the fine verse of his contemporaries...
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Obituary: Roma Gill
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 9/6/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Christopher Marlowe, Philip Massinger, Thomas Middleton and Cyril Tourneur became known internationally for the Oxford School Shakespeare...Doctor Faustus (1965), Women Beware Women (1968) and Tourneur's Atheist's Tragedy (1976); with the Oxford University...
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THE VERY BAD REVIEW.(the 1886 review by John Churton Collins of a book on literary history by Edmund Gosse; the fate of the reviewer and the reviewed)(Critical Essay)(Biography)
Magazine article from: The New Yorker; 10/6/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...editions of the works of John Dryden and of the playwright Cyril Tourneur. But in 1885 he had been turned down for a professorship...years, Gosse favorably reviewed Collins's editions of Tourneur and of Dryden. Collins wrote Gosse a number of grateful...
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The Lieutenant of Inishmore: Alley Theatre.(PRODUCTION NOTEBOOK)(Theater review)
Magazine article from: American Theatre; 3/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...the Royal Shakespeare Company, I was struck that it seemed like a modern-day Jacobean tragicomedy--as though Cyril Tourneur had come back to life. Of course, English audiences understand the Irish politics in the play better than Americans...
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The Duchess of Malfi revisited: J.R. Dunn's science fiction revenge tragedy.(Full Tide of Night)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Extrapolation; 12/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...the tradition of the seventeenth-century revenge tragedy in general, as it is typified by Webster, John Ford, Cyril Tourneur, and, of course, Shakespeare? Unlike Roger Zelazny, who did graduate work on the Jacobeans, Dunn's background...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Culture: Is this the future of historical drama?; Mike Davies talks tragedy with cult director Alex Cox.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 2/28/2003; 700+ words
; Byline: Mike Davies Originally attributed to Cyril Tourneur but now generally accepted as the work of Thomas Middleton, a collaborator of Shakespeare's who had also worked on Macbeth and...
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Brian Shelton
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 11/27/2000; ; 474 words
; ...comedy, but perhaps even more so for the Jacobean plays he introduced to the Pitlochry audiences, one of which, Cyril Tourneur's The Revenger's Tragedy, had its first professional production in 300 years at Scotland's Theatre in the Hills...
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Gibson still has a kid's taste for wild stories.(VARIETY)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 2/5/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...some of the bloodiest, most horrible stuff ever. . . . This thing called `The Revenger's Tragedy' [written by Cyril Tourneur in 1606] is my personal heinous favorite. It's about this guy who walks around with his sister's head in a bag...
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Who'd be a playwright?
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/27/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...but that "a glow- worm would be a better composer than Sussmeyer". Well, David Hare is a better playwright than Cyril Tourneur. Caryl Churchill is as good as most of Middleton and all of Rowley. And Chips with Everything is as fine a play...
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Cyril Tourneur
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Cyril Tourneur , 1575?-1626, English dramatist and poet. Little is known of his life. The Transformed Metamorphosis (1600), an allegorical...
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Tourneur, Cyril
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Tourneur, Cyril (1575–1626), English dramatist, of whom little is known...probably acted a year previously by the King's Men . It was revived under Tourneur's name by the RSC at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1966 and at the Aldwych...
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Middleton, Thomas
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...remembered for his two tragicomedies The Changeling (1622, co-written with William Rowley) and Women Beware Women ( c. 1625). Many critics believe he wrote The Revenger's Tragedy (1607), traditionally credited to Cyril Tourneur.
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Ford, John
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Ford, John (1586–1639) English playwright who, with Cyril Tourneur, pioneered post- Jacobean drama. His major plays include The Broken Heart ( c. 1630), Love's Sacrifice ( c. 1630...
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