SOURCE: “An Approach to Tourneur's Imagery,” in The Modern Language Review, Vol. LIV, No. 4, October, 1959, pp. 489-98.

In the following essay, Ekeblad argues that attempts to determine that The Revenger's Tragedy and The Atheist's Tragedy are written by the same hand by comparing the use of imagery in the plays are misguided; instead, she emphasizing a functional approach to the authorship question.

In the discussion of the authorship of The Revenger's Tragedy two attempts have been made to solve the problem by examining the imagery of the play and comparing it to that of the play known to be Tourneur's, The Atheist's Tragedy.¹ Both Una M. Ellis-Fermor and Marco K. Mincoff make illuminating remarks on the imagery of the two plays; but their conclusions are, somewhat disturbingly, opposed. Professor Ellis-Fermor finds that the same man wrote the two plays, Professor Mincoff that they must have had different authors...