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.
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