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Cyril Tourneur , 1575?-1626, English dramatist and poet. Little is known of his life. The Transformed Metamorphosis (1600), an allegorical satire, was his first published work. His reputation rests on two gloomy, violent plays, The Revenger's Tragedy (1607), which is thought by many scholars to have been written by Thomas Middleton, and The Atheist's Tragedy (1611).

Bibliography: See his complete works (ed. by A. Nicoll, 1930).

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Tourneur, Cyril (?1575–1626), dramatist. Practically nothing is known of his life. His small known output includes The Atheist's Tragedy (1611) and an elegy on the death of Prince Henry (1613). The Revenger's Tragedy, printed anonymously in 1607, was first ascribed to him in 1656 by Edward Archer, and generally accepted as his until the end of the 19th cent., when Middleton was proposed as the author. Since then there has been prolonged debate over attribution, with Middleton gradually emerging as the most likely candidate.

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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...
	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...
	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...
	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...
	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...
	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...
	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...
	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...
	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...
	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...