Among the many shadowy figures in the ranks of English Renaissance dramatists, Cyril Tourneur is one of the most elusive. Very little is known about his life, and we cannot even be sure that he actually wrote the work for which he is most celebrated,...

STEFAN JÃ"GER Cyrill ist 35, neugieng und weltoffen, manchmal gestresst, oft strahlend, und Cynll hat Tnsomie 21, auch Down-Syndrom genannt. Diese Behinderung wird in den von Cyrill geführten Interviews nicht ausgeschlachtet, sondern erlaubt im Gegenteil subtile Einsichten in die Persönlichkeiten der Befragten. Manchmal...

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In the following excerpt, Wilks argues that The Atheist's Tragedy is one of several Jacobean dramas that reveals a changing view of the notion of conscience, and that Tourneur's play explores the atheistic and Christian accounts of humans' moral nature and metaphysical destiny in order to refute the heresy of naturalist thinkers.

In the following excerpt, Kaufmann sees The Atheist's Tragedy, like many Jacobean tragedies, as being both subversive and orthodox, as it dramatizes the point of tension in the ethical system it explores. He argues too that the work is a theological play, a dramatization of the 127th Psalm, and a critique of the notion that humans, and not God, are in control of their fate and in a position to mete out justice in the world.

In the following excerpt from a work originally published in 1936, Ellis-Fermor characterizes Tourneur as a moralist and a man who viewed the world as irredeemably evil, and she views his plays as showing a great deal of craftsmanship in their concern with meter, imagery, philosophical reflection, and theatrical effect.