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The Authorship of the Revenger's Tragedy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Wilbur D. Dunkel
Wilbur D. Dunkel*
Affiliation:
The University of Rochester
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Extract

The Revenger's Tragedy was long regarded as the work of Cyril Tourneur, but in recent years scholars have vigorously denied his authorship. Though this discussion has demonstrated the weakness of the case for Tourneur, it has not thus far resulted in establishing general agreement as to the true author of the play.

Type
Research Article
Information
PMLA , Volume 46 , Issue 3 , September 1931 , pp. 781 - 785
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1931

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References

1 E. K. Chambers, The Elizabethan Stage, Oxford, 1924, vol. iv, indicates that the ascription of The Revenger's Tragedy to Cyril Tourneur began with the seventeenth century cataloguers, Kirkman and Archer. Here may also be found an indication of the disagreement among modern scholars concerning the authorship of the play.

2 E. H. C. Oliphant, MP viii (1910–11) pp. 411–460.

3 SP xxiii (1926) pp. 157–168.

4 The Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher, New Haven, 1927, p. 450.

5 SP xxiii (1926) pp. 157–168.

6 The Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher, p. 91.

7 E. K. Chambers, op. cit., does not list Women Beware Women, a tragedy of Middleton. A. H. Bullen, Middleton's editor, prints the play in the standard edition of Middleton's Works, London, 1885–86.

8 P. G. Wiggin, An Inquiry into the Authorship of the Middleton-Rowley Plays, Boston, 1897. In the thirty years and more since Miss Wiggin made her admirable study, many new facts about Middleton's work have been found. See also E. C. Morris, “Introduction” The Spanish Gipsie and All's Lost by Lust, Belles Lettres Series, Boston, 1908.

9 The line references for Middleton's plays are from Bullen's edition, op. cit.; and the page references for The Revenger's Tragedy are from J. A. Symonds's edition, The Best Plays of Webster and Tourneur, Mermaid Series, London, 1887.

10 W. D. Dunkel, The Dramatic Technique of Thomas Middleton in Bis Comedies of London Life, Chicago, 1925, pp. 17–18.

11 v, ii.

12 v, ii.

13 W. D. Dunkel, op. cit., pp. 24–26.

14 Ibid., pp. 75–77; 90–92.

15 i, i.

16 iii, i.

17 H. N. Hillebrand, “The Viper and Her Brood,” MLN xlii (1927) pp. 35–38.

18 Ibid., p. 35.

19 E. K. Chambers, op. cit., p. 390.

20 W. D. Dunkel, “The Authorship of The Puritan” PMLA xlv (1930) pp. 804–808.

21 The Revenger's Tragedy i, i, p. 390.