Cyril Tourneur:
(born c. 1575 — died Feb. 28, 1626, Kinsale, County Cork, Ire.).
English dramatist whose reputation rests largely upon The Atheist’s Tragedie, which is written in verse that is rich in macabre imagery.
In 1625 Sir Edward Cecil appointed Tourneur secretary to the council of war. This appointment was canceled by the duke of Buckingham, but Tourneur sailed with Cecil on an expedition to Cádiz. On the return voyage, he was put ashore at Kinsale with other sick men, and he died there. His poetical satire, The Transformed Metamorphosis, was published in 1600.
I shine in tears like the sun in April.
