Cyril tourneur, war correspondent, spy and author ofExtremities urging Sir Francis vere to the Anti-parle

Neophilologus ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 315-327
Author(s):  
Willem Schrickx
Keyword(s):  
Cyril Tourneur

The Tongue and Its Office in The Revenger's Tragedy

PMLA ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 92 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. L. Simmons
Keyword(s):  
Renaissance Humanism ◽  
Human Ability ◽  
Cyril Tourneur ◽  
Just Society ◽  
The Grotesque

Lussurioso’s valedictory in The Revenger’s Tragedy—”My tongue is out of office”—isolates a dominant image that Cyril Tourneur adapted from the Kydian revenge play, particularly Titus Andronieus where the mutilation of Lavinia represents the gothic assault on the definitively human ability to speak and the cancellation of the eloquent bond that creates a just society. Whereas Shakespeare finally affirms this classical idealization of rhetoric, Tourneur accentuates the opposing tradition of rhetoric as the ability to flatter, seduce, and speak unjustly. He employs the biblical concept of the fiery tongue as a quasi-independent organ with psychic and ethical potency. In Tourneur’s world of “nimble and desperate tongues,” the linguistic glory of man becomes a phallic and self-destructive act that justifies Vindice’s moral degeneration and tragic end. With other images that ironically evoke lost ideals of Renaissance humanism, imagery of the tongue helps to illuminate the grotesque Jacobean darkness of the play.

Poétique de l'écart : l'exemple de « Cyril Tourneur »

2009 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 174
Author(s):  
Pascal Aquien
Keyword(s):  
Cyril Tourneur

The Works of Cyril Tourneur

1931 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 102
Author(s):  
Charles J. Sisson ◽  
Allardyce Nicoll ◽  
Cyril Tourneur
Keyword(s):  
Cyril Tourneur

Cyril Tourneur

1874 ◽  
Vol s5-II (50) ◽  
pp. 465-466
Author(s):  
A. H. B.
Keyword(s):  
Cyril Tourneur

Religious Reformation and the Crisis of Providentialism in Cyril Tourneur’s The Atheist’s Tragedy (1611): A Cultural Materialist Reading

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Shahab Entezareghaem
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
Jacobean Drama ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Cast Doubt ◽  
Cyril Tourneur ◽  
Philosophical Debates

The early modern period in England is characterised by philosophical and moral debates over the meaning and pertinence of Christian beliefs and teachings. One of the most controversial topics in this epoch is God’s providence and its supposed impacts on man’s daily life. In the wake of the Reformation and emerging philosophical schools, particularly in the second half of the sixteenth century, Providentialism was seriously put into question and the meaning and influences of God’s providence were, therefore, investigated. Epicureans and Calvinists were two prominent groups of religious reformists who cast doubt upon the validity and pertinence of Christian Providentialism as it was taught during the medieval period. These intellectual and philosophical debates were reflected in the literary productions of the age in general, and in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama in particular. Cyril Tourneur is one of the early modern English playwrights who inquired into the meaning and relevance of Providentialism in his last play, The Atheist’s Tragedy (1611). Adhering to a cultural materialist mode of criticism, I will show in this paper that Tourneur is a dissident dramatist who separates the realm of God’s divinity from man’s rational capacity in his tragedy and anticipates, hence, the emergence and development of new religious and philosophical visions in the Renaissance.

CYRIL TOURNEUR AND THE TRANSFORMED METAMORPHOSIS

1940 ◽  
Vol os-XVI (61) ◽  
pp. 18-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
KENNETH N. CAMERON
Keyword(s):  
Cyril Tourneur
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