Author:Cyril Tourneur

Cyril Tourneur
(1575–1626)

Works

• The Transformed Metamorphosis (1600), an obscure satire
• The Revenger's Tragedy (1607), doubtful attributed to Tourneur - now generally believed to be by Thomas Middleton
• A Funeralt Poeme Upon the Death of the Most Worthie and True Soldier, Sir Francis Vere, Knight.. (1609)
• The Atheists Tragedie; or, The Honest Mans Revenge (1611)
• The Nobleman, a lost play entered on the Stationers Register (Feb. 15, 1612) as "A Tragecomedye called The Nobleman written by Cyrill Tourneur," the MS. of which was destroyed by John Warburton's cook
• A Griefe on the Death of Prince Henrie, Expressed in a Broken Elegie ..., printed with two other poems by John Webster and Thomas Haywood as Three Elegies on the most lamented Death of Prince Henry (1613)
• Arraignment of London (1613), stated in a letter of that date from Robert Daborne to Philip Henslowe that Daborne had commissioned Cyril Tourneur to write one act of this play
• The Character of Robert, earl of Salisburye, Lord High Treasurer of England, "ritten by Mr Sevill Tumour" may be reasonably assigned to Tourneur; it was found in a MS in possession of Lord Mostyn (Hist. MSS. Commission, 4th Report, appendix, p. 361)

Other

• Contributions to Book of Characters, by Sir Thomas Overbury

Works about Tourneur

• "Cyril Tourneur" (1878), a poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne
• "Tourneur, Cyril," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Tourneur, Cyril," by Algernon Charles Swinburne in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 23) (1888)
• "Tourneur, or Turner, Cyril," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Tourneur, Cyril," by Algernon Charles Swinburne and Margaret Bryant in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)