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Tourneur, Cyril
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Tourneur, Cyril (1575–1626), English dramatist, of whom little is known, though he was connected with the Cecils, and may have been sent by them on secret missions abroad. He was certainly in Cadiz with Sir Edward Cecil in a secretarial capacity the year before his death. Of the three tragedies doubtfully ascribed to him,
The Nobleman (1607) is lost, the manuscript having been destroyed by
Warburton's cook.
The Revenger's Tragedy, which has also been credited to
Middleton, was published anonymously in 1607 and 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 Theatre in London three years later.
The Atheist's Tragedy; or, The Honest Man's Revenge was probably written in 1606, since echoes of
King Lear (1605) have been noted in it.
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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 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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 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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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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 "Post-Tribune (IN)")
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PERSONAL BELONGINGS CAN BE RECLAIMED
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 1/21/1993; 565 words
; ...Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle figure. "People left books (a biography of Harry Truman and "The Complete Plays of Cyril Tourneur" from the University of Notre Dame Library), tupperware, wallets and credit cards," Pollack said. "We have...
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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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