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 actual...
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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 i...
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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 exp...
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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 sho...
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In the following essay, Cameron claims that earlier critics' dismissals of Tourneur's early poem The Transformed Metamorphosis are too harsh, and that the poem about the exploits of a ga...
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Cyril Tourneur
Critical Essay by R. J. Kaufmann
