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Tourneur, Cyril

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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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Cyril Tourneur

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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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