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Cyril Tourneur was a significant Jacobean poet and dramatist, yet until now there has been now full scale interpretation of his works. Critics have perhaps hesitated to undertake such a study because much of Tourneur's writing has been regarded as neurotic self-expression rather than art, and almost nothing is known of his life. In this penetrating study, however, Peter B. Murray analyzes the art and relates them to the artistic conventions and the thought of their day. Murray finds that Tourneur was not a neurotic but an objective, artistic craftsman. In both techniques and themes, Tourneur emerges as a defender of Elizabethan ideals-a follower of Spenser and Shakespeare and a supporter of the Anglican center against the extremes of Puritanism and atheism.
In his study of The Revenger's Tragedy, commonly attributed to Tourneur, Murray turns up new and possibly conclusive linguistic evidence that the play was written by Thomas Middleton and has therefore discussed it apart from Tourneur's work. Murray's examination of The Revenger's Tragedy shows that its author, like Middleton, is a detached ironist and not despairing and obsessed with vice as he has often been supposed to be.
Contents
Preface
I. LIFE AND WORKS
II. THE TRANSFORMED METAMORPHOSIS
1. The Corruption and Renewal of the World
2. Soul-Sickness and Spiritual Rebirth
3. Lights Metamorphosed and the Muses Defiled
III. THE ATHEIST'S TRAGEDY, OR THE HONEST MAN'S REVENGE
1. The Double Title and the Unity of Action
2. The Structure of the Play
3. Characters and Doctrines in Conflict
4. Symbolic Patterns
5. Conclusions on The Atheist's Tragedy
IV. THE ANONYMOUS REVENGER'S TRAGEDY
1. Authorship
2. The World of the Play
3. The Play's Structure and the Damnation of Vindici
4. The Moral Allegory
5. The Play and Its Author in Perspective
V. CONCLUSIONS ON CYRIL TOURNEUR
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