Cyril Tourneur
English dramatist
Cyril Tourneur (ca 1575 – February 28, 1626) was an English dramatist who enjoyed his greatest success during the reign of King James I of England.
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Quotes
edit- A drunkard clasp his teeth and not undo 'em,
To suffer wet damnation to run through 'em.- The Revenger's Tragedy (1607), Act III. Sc. 1. Compare: "Distilled damnation", Robert Hall (in Gregory's Life of Hall).
- joy's a subtle elf, I think man's happiest when he forgets himself.
- The Revenger's Tragedy (1607), Act IV. Sc. 4.[1]
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- ↑ The Revenger's Tragedy is now credited to Thomas Middleton and not Tourneur, see: Gibbons, Brian, ed. The Revenger's Tragedy; New Mermaids edition. New York: Norton, 1967; Second edition, 1991, ix