Download or read book The Plays and Poems of Cyril Tourneur, Vol. 1 of 2 written by Cyril Tourneur and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Plays and Poems of Cyril Tourneur, Vol. 1 of 2 The delay in bringing out these volumes has arisen from my anxiety to discover something of the particulars of Tourneur's life, but I am sorry to say I have not been successful; and his biography is likely to remain a blank, unless some future explorer should be more fortunate than myself. In settling the text I have been careful to eschew conjecture, and to adhere closely to the quartos. This has been very necessary in the case of the Revenger's Tragedy, (the only one of these works which has been edited before,) as the editors have often rashly and unnecessarily tampered with the text, even where it was quite intelligible and definite. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.