G. C. Moore Smith (M. L. R. iii. 149) supports the attribution by Winstanley to Tomkis of Pathomachia or the Battle of Affections (1630), also called in a running title and in Bodl. MS. Eng. Misc. e. 5 Love’s Load-stone, a University play of c. 1616, in which there are two references to ‘Madame Lingua’.
CYRIL TOURNEUR (?-1626).
Tourneur, or Turnor, first appears as the author of a satire, The Transformed Metamorphosis (1600), but his history and relationships to the Cecils and to Sir Francis Vere suggest that he was connected with a Richard Turnor who served in the Low Countries as water-bailiff and afterwards Lieutenant of Brill during 1585–96. His career as a dramatist was over by 1613, and from December of that year to his death on 28 Feb. 1626 he seems himself to have been employed on foreign service, mainly in the Low Countries but finally at Cadiz, where he was secretary to the council of war under Sir Edward Cecil in 1625. He died in Ireland and left a widow Mary.
Collections
1878. J. C. Collins, The Plays and Poems of C. T. 2 vols.
1888. J. A. Symonds, Webster and Tourneur (Mermaid Series).
Dissertations: G. Goodwin in Academy (9 May 1891); T. Seccombe in D. N. B. (1899).
The Atheist’s Tragedy. 1607 < > 11
S. R. 1611, Sept. 14 (Buck). ‘A booke called, The tragedy of the Atheist.’ John Stepneth (Arber, iii. 467).
1611. The Atheist’s Tragedie: Or The honest Man’s Reuenge, As in diuers places it hath often beene Acted. Written by Cyril Tourneur. For John Stepneth and Richard Redmer.